The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday clarified its stand on the recent appointment of Laxman Sivaramakrishnan as the players' representative in its Cricket Committee, saying a re-vote was conducted due to confusion over the first voting process.
Removed from an ICC committee following allegations of pressure from India, Tim May has said it was time someone "stood up to the cancer of stand-over tactics" that defines cricket's governing body.
After intense lobbying by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Sir Alex Ferguson stood down as manager of Manchester United on Wednesday, to be replaced by former Indian leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan.
Australia's Tim May, ousted from an International Cricket Council panel amid allegations of pressure from India, says it is time someone "stood up to the cancer of stand-over tactics" that define the governing body.
Fuming after former Indian spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan's appointment as a players' representative in the International Cricket Council (ICC), the Australian players' union has called the ICC the "most ineffective governing body in world sport".
Preferring not to say it in as many words, former Australian spinner and FICA boss Tim May today made a veiled reference to his ouster from the ICC's Cricket Committee, saying he is more interested in the apex body "policing" and maintaining its stated "governance".
After his controversial election to the ICC Cricket Committee, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan today said he would bring in fresh ideas to take the sport forward and added that his predecessor Tim May has done his bit.
A miffed Federation of International Cricketers Association, on Tuesday, demanded an ICC ethics committee enquiry into BCCI-backed L Sivaramakrishnan's appointment as a players' representative in the governing body, saying captains could have been forced to vote against incumbent Tim May.
In an appointment that was backed by the BCCI, former India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan replaced Tim May as a players' representative on the ICC Cricket Committee.
In the recent article in the Financial Mail well-known journalist Neil Manthorp has talked about Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). How BCCI is driven by lust for unlimited power. How BCCI pressurizes the subordinate nations to support them on issues where their vested interests lie. In such a scenario one ponders if International Cricket Council (ICC) actually controls the BCCI, or is it the other way round?