http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Michael-Chappell-c63914 lashes out on ICC for its compromising on DRS and FTP – Cricket News Update
Ian Chappell, the former Australian skipper, has severely censured the International Cricket Council’s recent http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Damien-Wright-c1304 to modify the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and formulate a grand Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the next eight years (2012-2020)
as he considers these steps to be merely a compromise to oblige a few strong cricketing nations, especially India.
The ICC removed the Ball Tracker technology from the list of the compulsory elements of DRS at the 2nd day of its annual meeting at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hong-Kong-c2919 on Monday. Like many other world cricket experts and fans, Chappell too thinks that the council has made this amendment
only to pacify the influential Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The Indian board and players had been critical of the Ball Tracker feature of the review system since its inception in 2009 and neither they accepted it nor let it be used in their matches. They considered the technology to be faulty.
Earlier, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 refused to accept it. Ultimately, the world’s cricket governing body had to succumb to the pressure of the richest and strongest of its member
boards.
Apart from the UDRS, Chappell argues that ICC has given clear priority to the interests of India while devising the FTP as the Men in Blue have been allotted more favourable Test and ODI quota in compare with other nations.
In the FTP list, Team India is set to play the highest number of ODIs, 166 in 8 years. Moreover, India will play 5-match Test series, the second longest after Ashes, during its tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in 2014.
Chappell believes that if ICC keeps pleasing a few haves on the expense of many haves not and making biased decisions, the standard of the international cricket can never be improved.
Chappell is not the only one to point out BCCI’s increasing influence on ICC, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Geoffrey-Boycott-c58776, the former English player, also asked all the cricketing nations to outvote the BCCI on the issue of URDS.
The ICC’s nepotism and favouritism for India have become points of severe concerns for many international cricket players and analysts.
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