With the tussle between the BCCI and the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL)
intensifying in the last few days, the International Cricket Council (ICC) today
maintained that it was an "internal matter" of the Indian Board and
there was no need for any interference at this stage.
The ICC also said that it was upto the respective cricket boards to take a decision
on the players defecting to the multi-million dollar breakaway league.
"The ICC Executive Board has taken a policy decision that
the BCCI was the only competent authority to deal with the issue. It is upto
the BCCI to decide whether to recognise the ICL or not," an ICC spokesman
said from Dubai.
He said that the BCCI representative had taken up the ICL issue
during the last Executive Board meeting at the Lord's in June.
"The Executive Board had told the BCCI that it was an
internal matter and it was left to them whether to recognise the ICL or not.
The ICC had told them that cricket should not suffer," he said.
"The ICC Executive Board, which has the Chairman of all
Test playing nations as members, makes the policies and the respective boards
have to follow that," he said.
The BCCI had sacked Kapil Dev as Chairman of the National
Cricket Academy for aligning with the rebel league and had barred all the 44
defecting players from playing for India or at the domestic level.
The decisions were taken in Mumbai at a special General Body
Meeting which also decided to substantially hike the match fees for first class
players and increase the prize money for domestic tournaments to Rs 4.2 crores,
in stark contrast to Rs 60 lakhs being given earlier.
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