Awards and Recognition
In 2005 he was awarded the International Journal of the History of Sports Achievement award for administrative excellence in global sport.
In 1996, the BBC declared him to be one of the world's top six sports executives. When Australia and West Indies refused to play in terror-scarred Sri Lanka during the 1996 World Cup, he conjured up a united India-Pakistan team in a matter of days to play friendlies against Sri Lanka there. In 1991, when the boycott of South Africa officially ended, he arranged a tour of the South African cricket team in India that went a long way in helping them shed the stigma of apartheid.
In the words of the Australian cricketer Ian Chappell: "He has a vision for the game’s progress that I haven’t heard enunciated by any other so-called leader among cricket officials."
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