Kolkata, Oct. 3: Former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya on Tuesday sent a 29-page reply to the show cause notice issued to him by the cricket board for alleged misappropriation of the 1996 World Cup funds.

"He sent a 29-page reply, along with around 500 page of annexures," sources close to Dalmiya said, while refusing to divulge the contents.

"The matter is sub-judice. And, we cannot give you any more details about the contents," the sources said.

The cricket board had show caused the former president on April 15 asking him to explain the ‘abnormally high’ expenses under several heads in connection with the 1996 World Cup.

Though the board had asked him to furnish his reply within 21 days, the senior cricket administrator moved court and got a respite when the Calcutta high court extended the time for submitting his reply.

The high court had directed Dalmiya to submit his reply by Tuesday.

Dalmiya had claimed that several copies of documents supplied to him by the BCCI were illegible, and moved a revision application before the high court against a city court order that rejected his application seeking fresh copies of documents and extension of time to reply to the present BCCI management over the aligations.

The board has already suspended Dalmiya, pending inquiry by the disciplinary committee into the allegations of financial irregularities.