ICC's Bangladesh president has also threatened to quit post the no-ball controversy which erupted during India's 109-run win over Bangladesh, in their World Cup 2015 quarter-final game at Melbourne on Thursday.
Outraged by the umpiring in Bangladesh's World Cup quarterfinal loss to India here, the country's cricket Board is all set to lodge a protest in the ICC and has got the backing of the governing body's President AHM Mustafa Kamal, who said the on-field officiating was 'very poor'.
BCB said it will 'protest the umpiring' in its report to the ICC. "Naturally we will appeal against these decisions in our report. It won't change the result, unfortunately. One wrong decision can make a huge difference in a World Cup quarter-final," BCB president Nazmul Hassan was quoted as saying by 'ESPNCricinfo'.
ICC's president has also threatened to quit post the no-ball controversy which erupted during India's 109-run win over Bangladesh, in their World Cup 2015 quarter-final game at Melbourne on Thursday.
Mustafa Kamal has even gone to the extent of labeling the match as 'fixed' and has added fuel to the on going controversy. He vowed to take up the 'issue' at ICC's next meeting, and slammed umpires Aleem Dar and Ian Gould for 'poor quality of umpiring'. Kamal has threatened to resign post the saga and voiced his opinions on live Bangladeshi television.
"From what I have seen, the umpiring was very poor," Kamal told Bangladeshi reporters after the match. "There was no quality in the umpiring. It seemed as if they had gone into the match with something in mind. I am speaking as a fan, not as the ICC president. Umpires may make mistakes.
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"The ICC will see if this was done deliberately. Everything is on record. The ICC has to investigate and inquire the issue to see if there's anything to it," he added.
Bangladeshi fans were furious after India's Rohit Sharma was given a life-line, after being caught off the bowling of Rubel Hossain, only for the decision to be reverted due to a 'no ball'.Dar and Gould signalled a no-ball for what looked like a geniune waist-high delivery. Bangladeshi fans also took offence at the fact that Mohammad Mahmudullah who was caught close to the boundary rope by Shikhar Dhawan, should not have been given out.
The Tigers had made the World Cup quarter-finals for the first ever time, and defeat sent the nation into collective mourning. Effigies of Dar were burnt, with fans clamouring for his imminent removal. Kamal even went to the extent of labeling ICC as 'Indian Cricket Council'. Bangladesh's ouster dominated front-page headlines on Friday with commentators blaming shoddy umpiring for the defeat.
Newspapers in the cricket mad country have labeled the game as an 'umpiring scandal'.
ICC react
Meanwhile the ICC have defended the umpiring decision in the India-Bangladesh contest and have hit back strongly at Kamal. The International Cricket Council has backed match officials criticised by the governing body's own president over a controversial no-ball decision in Thursday's World Cup quarter-final between India and Bangladesh.
In response, ICC Chief Executive David Richardson hit back at Kamal for his comments. "The ICC has noted Mr Mustafa Kamal's comments, which are very unfortunate but made in his personal capacity," former South Africa wicketkeeper Richardson said in a statement.
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"As an ICC President, he should have been more considerate in his criticism of ICC match officials, whose integrity cannot be questioned.The no-ball decision was a 50-50 call. The spirit of the game dictates that the umpire's decision is final and must be respected.
"Any suggestion that the match officials had 'an agenda' or did anything other than perform to the best of their ability are baseless and are refuted in the strongest possible terms," he concluded.
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