Devajit Saikia Height, Age, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Devajit Saikia

• Devajit Saikia liked cricket and started playing in his childhood.

• In 1984, he played for Assam in the CK Nayudu Trophy for school cricket in Lucknow.

• On his Vijay Merchant Trophy debut for Assam under-15 at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur, he scored 55 runs.

• In the Under-17 Vijay Hazare Trophy in 1987, he represented Assam and scored a century against Orissa in Kolkata.

• He played for Assam Under-19 in the Cooch Behar Trophy between 1986 and 1989.

• He was a member of the East Zone team, along with Sourav Ganguly and Ranjib Biswal, who won the 1987-1988 Vijay Hazare Trophy in Kanpur.

• He played under Maninder Singh in the Wills Trophy (now defunct).

• He also played 4 matches in the Ranji Trophy in 1991 for Assam.

• At the age of 21, he quit cricket to focus on his studies.

• From 1989 to 1991, he also worked in the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) after getting a job through sports quota employment.

• He later found a job through sports quota at the Reserve Bank of India (Guwahati) from 1991 to 1996.

• In December 1997, he enrolled as a lawyer under the Bar Council of Assam and began his career as a lawyer at the Gauhati High Court.

• Between 1997 and 2004, he worked as a private lawyer, mostly related to cases of writ jurisdiction, criminal law and insurance law.

• In 2005, he became a government lawyer for the Assam government and represented cases related to finance, taxation, health, and education.

• Between 2009 and 2011, he was appointed Additional Advocate General of Meghalaya.

• He later became the Additional Advocate General of Assam in 2011 which he remained till 2014 as he left after some disputes with then CM Tarun Gogoi.

• He resumed his private practice in 2014 and fought cases mostly against the state government.

• In July 2016, he became the Senior Additional Advocate General of Assam.

• He later held many important positions in the Assam Cricket Association (ACA).

• In January 2025, he replaced Jay Shah as the BCCI secretary.