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Ranbir Singh - a no-nonsense cricket administrator
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With his election, continuity will be maintained in the cricket board since Ranbir Singh and the outgoing President, Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya, have worked together as President and Vice-President in the year gone by.
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But then the Bhiwani-based Ranbir is an old BCCI hand and knows fully well how the board functions.
A lawyer by profession, Mr Ranbir Singh first came on the national cricket scene in 1980-81 when he was elected Joint Secretary of the board.
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In between, Mr Ranbir Singh has been a member of the BCCI finance committee and Vice-President of the National Cricket Academy.He also played a key role in probing the bribery scandal which had surfaced in Indian cricket last year.
Besides the administrative posts he has held in the board, Mr Ranbir Singh was the manager of the Indian cricket team that took part in the 1992 World Cup in Australia and the Test series against Australia that preceded the tournament.It was in this tournament that the current India captain Sourav Ganguly made his international debut.
Mr Ranbir Singh has been never afraid to take his opponents head-on, be it in the state or anywhere else.In the mid-eighties, when an attempt was made to dislodge him as secretary of the Haryana Cricket Association by a very senior IPS officer, he thwarted the challenge by using every means at his command and came out triumphant.
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And while the fight between Kapil Dev and the powers that ran Haryana cricket was on, Mr Ranbir Singh never uttered a word against the former Indian cricket star.
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Ranbir Singh, who arrived at the Indira Gandhi domestic airport here today to a rousing welcome, after defeating Union Minister Sharad Pawar in the BCCI presidential election in Kolkata on Wednesday, without naming anybody but obviously referring to Raj Singh Dungarpur of the Cricket Club of India (Mumbai) and Indrajit Singh Bindra of the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA), said the unwarranted remarks by them in the media had created avoidable confusion in the run-up to the BCCI elections.
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Ranbir Singh made it clear that he was now the Board President and not "president-elect"."I have taken over as the Board President", he asserted.Outgoing President Jagmohan Dalmiya has also told the members of the BCCI that "Ranbir Singh is the authorised president".
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There is no ambiguity about it", Ranbir Singh clarified here today, in an exclusive interview to The Tribune.
Analysing the voting pattern in the BCCI elections, he admitted that some cross voting had indeed taken place."A few votes I thought were mine did not come my way", he said, without any rancour.
He was, however, saddened that a unit from the North - PCA -had orchestrated a campaign against him though it was North Zone's turn to occupy the President's chair this time.He said if the PCA or Mr Bindra for that matter had any difference of opinion with him, it could have been sorted out across the table, instead of indulging in subterfuge, and bringing in an "outsider" like Sharad Pawar, who otherwise represents Maharashtra, to contest from the North.
"It was not in the interest of the game", Ranbir noted.
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Mr Ranbir Singh said his immediate task would be to ensure that the four Tests against Australia, and the two Tests against South Africa in the coming winter and the one-day match between India and Pakistan on November 14 in Kolkata to mark the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the BCCI, were conducted smoothly.
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Chappell my best choice as coach, says Ranbir
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Mr Ranbir Singh said he took over as President of the board when it was going through tumultuous times.There were a slew of court cases against the board and working under those circumstances "was not easy".In this connection he pointed out that when Mr Sharad Pawar took over as BCCI President last month, the first thing he did was to appeal to all concerned to withdraw the cases so that the board functioning could be smooth.
What surprised Mr Ranbir Singh the most after the election of Mr Pawar as President was the selection of Bhupinder Singh Sr as national selector from the North Zone.
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Meanwhile, Mr Ranbir Singh said he was working hard to set up a cricket academy at Lahli, 12 km from Rohtak, where a stadium with all modern facilities had been constructed.The stadium constructed at a cost of Rs 8 crore also has 20 rooms for trainees.He was of the view that in time this could become the main training centre of the HCA.
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