ICC meets today on revamp plan
Singapore: India will push for significant control over the ICC’s revenue and power structure when a radical revamp plan is put to vote in a meeting here tomorrow despite strong resentment from the Cricket Boards of South Africa, Pakistan and Sri lanka. The controversial restructuring of the ICC, which would cede executive decision-making to India, Australia and England, requires consent of eight of the 10 member Boards and it remains to be seen whether the dissenting Boards remain adamant or agree to the changes.
New model is legally sound: ICC
New Delhi: Responding to opposition from Sri lanka Cricket (SlC) to the proposed changes in ICC’s structure, ICC’s head of legal affairs Iain Higgins has said that the revamp model was “legally sound” and member boards can vote against it should it be brought to vote during tomorrow’s Board meeting in Singapore. According to Cricinfo, Higgins has said, “Memorandum and Articles of Association” and members are free to express their opposition. “[…]On the face of the resolutions themselves, they would appear to be correct. Any Member who disagrees with that analysis or any of the resolutions is, of course, free to vote against the resolutions, or take such other action as they see fit,” Higgins wrote.
it is retrograde step: Woolf
london: lord Harry Woolf, the former judge whose review of the ICC’s governance structure was rejected, has lambasted the proposed revamp of the body which would cede executive decision-making to India, Australia and England, calling the controversial plan a “retrograde step”. lord Woolf, whose 2011 review of the ICC’s governance structure was vehemently opposed by the BCCI, said the currently planned revamp is “a really alarming position for the future of cricket”. “It is giving extraordinary powers to a small triumvirate of three people, and everybody else has got no power to say anything or do anything,” Woolf told The Daily Telegraph. “I would certainly think it would be very difficult to get any person who was completely objective, looking at cricket, to understand how these proposals could take forward the programme for international cricket,” he added.
SC moved to interfere in players’ auction
New Delhi: A plea was on Friday moved in Supreme Court for direction to the BCCI that players’ auction for IPl 2014 should be subject to order passed by it on the report of a committee probing the spot-fixing scam of last championships allegedly involving Gurunath Meiyappan of CSK. The application in this regard was mentioned by Aditya Verma, Secretary of Cricket Association of Bihar, before a bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik which agreed to hear it on February 10.