July 20, 2008	Sunday	Rajab 16, 1429

KOLKATA, July 19: The former ICC and BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya has filed his nomination for the election to the post of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president, his first step in returning to cricket administration after his faction had lost the BCCI elections to the Sharad Pawar-led group in 2005.

Dalmiya is confident of a successful comeback to a position that he had previously held for 13 years.

“We are very confident and 100 per cent sure that our panel will win. I will talk about my plans once the results are out,” Dalmiya said on Saturday.

Dalmiya brushed aside suggestions on problems that will emerge between the BCCI and the CAB if he becomes president.

“The law is in favour of the association and me ... and there will be absolutely no problem,” he told reporters. “Nothing can stop me from contesting the elections.”

Dalmiya was expelled from the BCCI in December 2006, and he subsequently resigned as CAB president. The expulsion prevented him from holding any post in the BCCI or its affiliates, but the Kolkata High Court stayed the decision around a year ago, allowing him to contest the CAB elections. However, the appeal was still pending in court when the elections were held last year, and Dalmiya stayed out of contention.—Agencies