As of Friday, International Cricket Council (ICC) has not responded to Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) latest letter seeking the intervention of ICC’s Dispute Resolution Committee to review the board’s request to relocate the national team’s matches in next month’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup from India.
BCB made the request to ICC on Thursday, hours after Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Nazrul declared there was “no scope” to change Bangladesh’s stance of not sending the team to India over security concerns, saying it was “the government’s decision”.
The previous day, ICC had rejected Bangladesh’s relocation request and set a one-day deadline for BCB to convey whether the Bangladesh team would travel to India for the World Cup, set to begin on February 7, with online reports indicating Scotland could replace the Tigers if BCB doesn’t change its decision.
The deadline ended on Thursday but the game’s governing body is yet to respond.
On Friday morning, Times of India reported that BCB had sent a letter to ICC, seeking the involvement of the Dispute Resolution Committee.
A BCB director, seeking anonymity, confirmed it to be true to the media.
As per the Terms of References of the ICC’s Dispute Resolution Committee, it is an independent arbitration body that handles disputes involving the ICC, its member boards, players and officials.
However, it is not an appeal body against decisions of the ICC and can only examine whether ICC followed its own rules and procedures while making the decision.
The ICC had last formed a panel under this committee in 2018, when Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) demanded $60 million as compensation from Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for not honouring a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that required the two boards to play a number of bilateral series between 2015 and 2023. The three-member committee dismissed PCB’s compensation claims.
Courtesy: The Daily Star.
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