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ICC awaits BCCI letter on Ganguly
According to an official ICC release issued on Tuesday night, the BCCI had notified the ICC executive board that it intended to dispute the process that was used to deal with Sourav Ganguly?s appeal under the ICC code of conduct and the ICC chief had, in turn, asked the BCCI to give whatever it had verbally indicated in writing.
According to an official ICC release issued on Tuesday night, the BCCI had notified the ICC executive board that it intended to dispute the process that was used to deal with Sourav Ganguly’s appeal under the ICC code of conduct and the ICC chief had, in turn, asked the BCCI to give whatever it had verbally indicated in writing.
“The ICC, through its president Ehsan Mani, has agreed that should the BCCI wish to take this matter further it must write to the ICC which would then refer this to the ICC disputes resolution committee,” the release said.
That will probably take some time as the BCCI bosses are currently attending meetings in Dublin on the sidelines of the ICC Trophy in Ireland. It is still unclear as to what will happen if and when the BCCI sends a letter. “It depends on the final content of the letter,” said sources.
The BCCI is seeking not just to overturn the ban on Ganguly (which appeal has once been turned down by ICC appeals commissioner Michael Belloff) but also question the law on which the ban has been made. The BCCI’s contention is that the law itself — which holds the fielding captain responsible for a team’s slow over-rate — is flawed.
The ICC could be in a major spot of bother if they do agree to a disputes resolution committee and the law being looked into is found faulty. Simply because other skippers have been tried and served out suspensions for the same. It could create legal problems for cricket’s governing body.
If the letter does finally go through, the matter will be taken up soon. HTC/ New Delhi
Mani backs Bangladesh
The International Cricket Council has ruled out stripping minnows Bangladesh of their Test status, saying it was looking at ways to assist non-performing countries to improve their playing standards.
“Clearly, the ICC does not wish to see gaps in standards resulting in mismatches on the field, but it also does not believe that punishing teams for performing poorly provides the necessary incentive to allow them to improve”, ICC president Ehsan Mani told said after the business forum meeting.
He said the Bangladesh Under-19 team which visited Australia recently had performed very well beating the host teams in seven of the eight games.
“The current Bangladesh Test team is not exposed to that type of experience and it will pick up”, he said. Mani said it was a matter that was considered carefully by the Board, over the course of the year, through the “Review of the Structure of Cricket” project.
There were several options that were put forward in this project that provided alternative playing programmes.
