CoA directs BCCI not to send notice to ICC

CoA directs BCCI not to send notice to ICC

The Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by the Supreme Court reiterated its position to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday midnight that there is no need to send a notice to the International Cricket Council (ICC) seeking remedial measures for the breach of the Members Participation Agreement (MPA) caused at the ICC Board meeting in Dubai on April 26.

The MPA is a 63-page document binding upon the ICC to fulfill certain obligations to the crickets Boards of India, Australia and England.

The MPA was created in 2014 when N.Srinivasan was the ICC Chairman, Cricket Australia was represented by Wall Edwards and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) was represented by Giles Clarke.

The BCCI Jt. Secretary Amitabh Choudhary explained the Board's version and impressed upon the CoA the need to send a notice to the ICC. In its response mailed around midnight on Thursday, the CoA conveyed to the BCCI that its doesn't feel the need to change its opinion on the matter. The letter from Amitabh Choudhary, Jt. Secretary to the CoA, sent late evening on Thursday

The BCCI or its member units, Sir, may I humbly state, have not lost sight of anything. I would also like to assure you that till an agreement is in place, the BCCI will do everything it can to honour the agreement and I had even kept you informed on all decisions in this regard including the selection of the team for the ensuing Champions' Trophy.

To conclude, I would like to reiterate that it is absolutely imperative that the Notice to ICC/IBC asking them to remedy the breach within a period of 30 days be sent today as a matter of abundant caution.