Former BCCI chief Raj Singh dead

Mumbai, Sep 12 (PTI) Former Board of Control for Cricket
in India (BCCI) President Raj Singh Dungarpur died in this
west Indian city on Saturday following protracted illness.

Affectionately called as 'Rajbhai' in the cricket
fraternity, the 73-year-old Dungarpur, who was president of
the Cricket Board for three years in the late 1990s, was
suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

A bachelor from the Dungarpur royal family of Rajasthan,
he was also a former first class cricketer, a former India
team manager and ex-chairman of the senior selection panel.

A former President of the Cricket Club of India for 13
years before he took ill last year, Dungarpur died at his
residence Saturday morning. (MORE) PTI