BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya is 'incoherent and incomprehensible', says Justice Lodha Committee

New Delhi: After three-and-half months after his election as the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Jagmohan Dalmiya found himself in cold soup.

In a strange development which will certainly have far reaching complications, Justice Lodha Committee found the board president 'incoherent and incomprehensible,' forcing the Supreme Court constituted committee to asks who is running the affairs of world's richest cricket body.

According to a report in Times of India, Justice Lodha Committee met the 75-year-old in Kolkata yesterday as a part of the ongoing process to clean the sport after enduring betting and spot-fixing scams. To the surprise of the committee members, Dalmiya reportedly requested to have the company of his son Abhishek ahead of the meeting, citing "illness related problems".

The report added that the meeting failed to serve it purpose and said, "The BCCI president was finding it difficult to comprehend the questions put to him. The questions were relayed by Abhishek to his father. Dalmiya's speech was incoherent and incomprehensible. His son used to translate the 'incoherent and incomprehensible' speech to the committee members."

"If this is the physical and mental condition of the BCCI president at present, did those who elected him three months back not know about this? If the physical and mental status of the president has deteriorated so much in recent times, then who is running the affairs of the richest cricket body," the report further qouted.

After a prolong soul-searching, an embattle Indian cricket board elected Dalmiya as its president unopposed on March 2 in the hope of cleaning the malign image of the sport in the country.

Earlier, the apex court had on January 22 appointed the three-member committee, also comprising retired judges Ashok Bhan and R V Raveendran, to prescribe punishment for ex-BCCI president N Srinivasan's son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings official Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra.

Both Meiyappan and Kundra were found involved in Indian Premier League 2013, which rocked the cricket world.