A peeved senior BCCI official said that while it was expected that there will be resistance with current BCCI dispensation’s bete noire Shashank Manohar at the helm of ICC, they were taken by surprise when Zimbabwe and Bangladesh - the two votes that BCCI thought of as assured - never came their way
Dubai: A peeved senior BCCI official said that while it was expected that there will be resistance with current BCCI dispensation’s bete noire Shashank Manohar at the helm of ICC, they were taken by surprise when Zimbabwe and Bangladesh — the two votes that BCCI thought of as assured — never came their way.
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It is also a sort of embarrassment for the four-member Committee of Administrators (COA) as it was dealing with a lot of member nations and was extremely confident of pulling it in India’s favour.
“Zimbabwe have been promised USD 19 million by the ICC. “On what grounds has Manohar made this promise? But strangely Bangladesh also went the other way.
Today at the meeting, Manohar, in fact, said that the USD 290 million is a take-it-or-leave-it offer,” the fuming BCCI official said.
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