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Jagmohan Dalmiya (May 30, 1940-September 20, 2015) passed away aged 75 after being admitted to hospital following a massive gastro intestinal bleeding and in spite of all efforts of doctors he succumbed to the bleeding at 8:45pm .

The body of late #BCCI president Dalmiya will be taken to his residence tonight . Tommorow his body will be kept at Cricket Association of Bengal from 12-3pm , for everyone to pay their last tribute .

State chief minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to the hospital to pay her last tribute on hearing the sad demise of Dalmiya . CAB officials , state ministers and well wishers were present at the hospital to pay their last tribute tonight .

Dalmiya was one of the shrewdest businessmen the cricketing world had seen. Long before N Srinivasan appeared on the scene to monopolise the game through Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it was Dalmiya who pulled the strings and ensured BCCI became cricket’s richest and most powerful body. From being Chairman of ICC to President of BCCI, there was very little Dalmiya did not achieve in his role as a cricket administrator.

Jagmohan Dalmiya got his first taste of real power at an early age. Born into a family of Marwari businessmen, Dalmiya took over from his father as the head of the family’s construction company, ML Dalmiya Co. Ltd, at the young age of 20. He had a passion for cricket though; he was a wicketkeeper-batsman of some repute (he kept wickets for Jorabagan and Rajasthan — the Kolkata club, not the Indian state), having once scored a double century. However, his interest in the game translated more through administration than it ever did in his playing days.