April 1, 2015
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Kamal quits as ICC president over row

Former BCCI president and current ICC chairman N. Srinivasan hands over the cricket World Cup trophy to Australian captain Michael Clarke at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia on March 29, 2015.

Former BCCI president and current ICC chairman N. Srinivasan hands over the cricket World Cup trophy to Australian captain Michael Clarke at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia on March 29, 2015.

 Bangladesh’s Mustafa Kamal said  he is resigning from the post of president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) over who should have given away the World Cup trophy to the fifth-time winners Australia.

At a press conference here, Kamal said he was resigning to protest the “flagrant violation” of the ICC constitution, and his decision was “final” and “not negotiable”, reports bdnews24.com.

Kamal’s resignation in a huff follows a massive spat between him and ICC chairman N. Srinivasan, who broke the ICC practice and himself presented the glittering World Cup to winners Australia at the prize-giving ceremony after the final at Melbourne last Sunday.

According to the ICC practice until now, its president does the honours but Srinivasan used Kamal’s outburst against poor umpiring in the India-Bangladesh quarter-final match and got others to support his decision to himself present the trophy to the winners.

Kamal was not on the dais during the presentation ceremony and Srinivasan was booed heavily by sections of the 93,000-strong crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

He had earlier threatened to reveal some of the ICC’s “dark secrets” following the spat.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday officially protested to the ICC over controversial rulings by umpires against Bangladesh during their World Cup quarter-final against India.

BCB chief executive officer Nizam Uddin Chowdhury said on Tuesday that the board had lodged its protest on the day after the March 19 match.

 

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