The Indian cricket board on Friday hit back at its Pakistani counterpart and said the Pakistan Cricket Board's reservations over Sunil Gavaskar's functioning as ICC Cricket Committee chairman were unwarranted.
Updated at 7.50 pm
MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board on Friday hit back at its Pakistani counterpart and said the Pakistan Cricket Board's reservations over Sunil Gavaskar's functioning as ICC Cricket Committee chairman were unwarranted.
Throwing its weight behind the former captain, the BCCI said it had not made an issue when two Pakistanis were named to the ICC elite panel of umpires which does not include an Indian.
"If the Pakistan board has some reservations over the appointment of an Indian (Javagal Srinath) on the match referee's panel, what about the presence of two Pakistani umpires on the ICC elite panel which does not have an Indian in it," BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah told reporters.
"We are of the same opinion as the ICC on the issue. Gavaskar has done very well as chairman of the committee and has worked very hard," Shah said.
Media reports in Pakistan on Thursday suggested that the
PCB was miffed at the Gavaskar-headed ICC committee's decision not to name a Pakistani recommended by it for the new match referees' panel.
They said that PCB wanted Gavaskar to be replaced by former Pakistan skipper Majid Khan.
Dismissing the criticism as unwarranted, ICC had said that the decisions taken by cricket's world governing body were always taken without bias.
"Gavaskar is not the only man on the committee. The decision is not his alone as the committee comprises Malcolm Speed (ICC chief executive) and others too," Shah pointed out.
The PCB termed as "rubbish and baseless" media reports that it was unhappy with Gavaskar and was planning to challenge the former Indian captain's role.
"These are rubbish and baseless reports. We are neither making any report nor intend to make any report against Sunil Gavaskar. We respect and accept his decisions," PCB's Director Board Operations Abbas Zaidi said from Lahore.
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