The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) that it can’t take away match referee Andy Pycroft from the panel of match referees for the continuing Asia Cup as its investigation discovered no error on his half.
This whole occasion rooted from when the PCB lodged an official criticism to the ICC to penalise and take away Pycroft from the panel of match referees after members of the Indian staff refused to conduct handshakes on the toss and after the latest match on Sunday, September 14.
Nonetheless, ICC has communicated with the PCB that there was no wrongdoing on a part of the match referee, as per Cricbuzz. The ICC communique acknowledged that the worldwide administrative physique performed its personal inquiry and gave a judgement that Pycroft really helped stop a humiliation for Suryakumar Yadav and Salman Ali Agha by informing them to keep away from handshakes after the toss.
Opposite to a number of studies, the ICC burdened that Pycroft had not violated any form of match protocol via his determination. The physique additionally conceded that the PCB was properly inside its proper to criticism. Nonetheless, they discovered that Pycroft was to not be blamed. It additionally clarified that the appointment of match officers is a call centralised by the ICC and can’t be decided or influenced by its member boards.
The ICC made it clear that bending the foundations underneath stress may have set a fallacious precedent. The chairperson of the PCB Mohsin Naqvi introduced on social media that the board instructed the staff to move to the venue after earlier studies that the staff is not going to take part within the conflict towards hosts United Arab Emirates on Thursday, September 17.
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