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| May 03, 2007 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 15, 1428 |
No-confidence vote against ICC can wait, says BCCI
MUMBAI, May 2: The Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has no immediate plans to table a no-confidence motion against the International Cricket Council, contrary to reports appearing in the media.
“There is no question of any individual deciding on an action like this,” a top BCCI official, who just returned from the West Indies, told Cricinfo. “A no-confidence motion is a serious issue and before we take any action like this it has to be discussed within the BCCI and also among other nation members to see if there is some sort of consensus.”
The buzz that the BCCI would table a no-confidence motion against the ICC has been doing the round since Niranjan Shah, the secretary of the Indian board, made statements to this effect – which he subsequently denied – while still in the West Indies, shortly after the final. Shah was quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald as saying: “Some of it (a decision on the no confidence motion) will depend on how other boards are feeling. It is fair to say that there are quite a few things to sort out at the next chief executives' meeting.”
The BCCI believes that the ICC has become too bureaucratic in its functioning and that too many people are involved in taking any decision. It is the BCCI's contention that the fiasco of the last moments of the final, where Sri Lanka were forced to bat out three overs in near-darkness, after they had initially accepted an offer of bad light and the Australians had celebrated their win, could have been easily avoided. —Agencies
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