ICC Chairman Srinivasan outmanoeuvres Kamal

In a surprising break from a 15-year practice, it is the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman, not the president, who handed over the World Cup to winners Australia on Sunday.

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Published : 29 March 2015, 03:41 AM
Updated : 29 March 2015, 02:18 PM

After a boardroom power struggle, the embattled Indian cricket board chief N Srinivasan turned up at the MCG and ensured that he, not President AHM Mustafa Kamal, gave away the trophy to the Australian Captain Michael Clarke.
 
This is a shocking breach of the global body's constitution that states the president will "present trophies at global competitions".


The president of the game’s governing body gave away the cup for the first time in 1999.

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Kamal, the first president after the ICC's restructuring, has three months before his one-year term ends.


Srinivasan is believed to have shut Kamal out from the role at an "informal" ICC board meeting on Saturday.


Reports have it that Kamal was isolated and outfoxed when he protested and tried to make his point in light of the ICC constitution.


The Kolkata-based Telegraph on Sunday said that Kamal, planning minister in Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet, had apparently been “insulted” on two occasions.

Things went as far as him being asked to leave the meeting when his "conduct" came under scrutiny.
 

The report said Srinivasan took control of the proceedings at the “meeting" that asked Kamal to "explain" his scornful criticism of umpiring decisions in the quarterfinal that Bangladesh lost to India at the same venue.

According to Telegraph, Kamal gave a verbal explanation, clarifying that he had spoken on the umpiring howlers as an individual, not as ICC president. 

Srinivasan, barred by the Indian Supreme Court from seeking re-election as head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, was unwilling to bury the matter.

It means Kamal will have to give his explanation in writing when ICC’s full ICC board meets in Dubai next month.