President of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Mustafa Kamal will not hand over this year’s Cricket World Cup trophy to the champion team.
ICC governing bodies decided this at a meeting held in Melbourne on Saturday.
According to the Telegraph Kolkata, Kamal was present in the ‘informal’ meeting too. N. Srinivasan, the current ICC chairman demanded Kamal’s explanation regarding his comments on the recent umpiring in the India-Bangladesh match. Kamal did not give any verbal explanation straight away at the meeting. He mentioned that he commented on the umpires from a personal point of view and not as the president of the ICC.
Srinivasan said that he was not satisfied with this answer and demanded a written explanation in the next meeting.
Later, Srinivasan declared that the WC trophy will be handed over to the champion team by himself, chairman of the ICC, not the president. But according to the constitution of ICC, the president is supposed to present trophies in global competitions.
Kamal protested citing the constitution. But he was sided and other members of the board decided otherwise.
Mustafa Kamal, currently the Planning Minister of Bangladesh and president of ICC was insulted twice in the meeting. He was even asked to leave the meeting when questions came about his ‘behavior’ as the president.
ICC might have taken this decision because of Kamal’s rather aggressive criticism of the umpires of the India-Bangladesh match.
No reason was shown by the ICC regarding this ‘deprivation’ of ICC president. But considering recent events, everyone speculates that Kamal’s criticism about ICC’s role in the 2015 World Cup made the council take this decision.
Generally, in cricket or football or any other major international sporting tournaments, the president of the organisation hands over the trophy to the winners. The last cricket World Cup trophy in 2011 was handed over by the president of ICC. Srinivasan was the president and Kamal was the vice president back then.
Source: Ittefaq
