Saturday, December 10, 2005
Wasim Akram and the ICC
Over the last few days Wasim Akram has made some interesting and stinging comments about the ICC. First, he came out and said that ICC's policy on chucking was not only difficult and hard to understand, its implementation was perhaps blatantly biased. Chief amongst Wasim's accusations was the lack of English/Aussie/NZ bowlers who have been investigated for chucking, while the process seems to mostly effect bowlers from the subcontinent and the West Indies. Now, Wasim seems to allude that this may be the case because there is no effective representation from the subcontinent on the ICC. I'm not sure if this comment really has merit. Sunil Gavaskar is chairman of the cricket committee, Ihsan Mani, who's merit Wasim appears to question, is the ICC president, and Faisal Hasnain is the CFO. Sure, high profile players like Imran, Kapil and Javed are not represented, but that doesn't necessarily mean the ICC is not representative. The chucking issue needs to be looked at in more detail, as well as the rules which govern chucking but do comments like this help? Not sure.
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