BCCI annual report: Photo album of Pawar

KANPUR: Indian cricket board president Sharad Pawar may have set a record of sorts with as many as 35 photographs of his appearing in the board's annual report.

In other words, on every seventh page there is a picture of Pawar, perhaps an unprecedented occurrence in the annual document now in its 78th year.

Pawar seems to have beaten hands down all others, even the 'joint effort' of then captain Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Niranjan Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has failed to get better of Pawar.

Dravid's pictures appear at 13 places, Tendulkar has 11 photos and Shah seven, making it a grand total of 31 - four less than that of Pawar.

Even Pawar's immediate predecessors Ranbir Singh Mahendra and Jagmohan Dalmiya, who ruled over the board like no one else, never had so many of their photos published in one edition of the annual report.

"The annual reports look more of a personal photo album of Pawar than what it is meant to be," commented an Uttar Pradesh cricket official.