BCB seeks ICC review over Taskin suspension
Sports Reporter
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) sent a review notice to the ICC yesterday in a bid to lift the suspension on the fast bowler Taskin Ahmed. Nazmul Hassan Papon, the BCB president earlier tried his best to solve the matter though diplomatic channel but it seemed the process didnt fetch any positive outcome. The BCB, who contemplates Taskins delivery as legal, then prepared the papers through their legal department and sent it immediately in its desperate attempt to get the fast bowler back in the team during this World T20. What made BCB hopeful is that the ICC could review the decision within 48 hours after getting the notice. There will be a hearing in which both parties would raise their points through a teleconference after which a verdict should come. According to BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury who was involved with the legal department to prepare the review notice, there shouldnt be more than one hearing to finalise the matter. But he didnt clearly reveal whether its possible for Taskin to return to the cricket in the ongoing World T20 if BCB won the verdict. Weve been in talks and discussion with our legal solicitors since last few days. After these, weve decided to make an appeal to ICC formally. Well do it today, Nizamuddin Chowdhury told the reporters.
When a bowler applies in International Cricket Council (ICC) to review the verdict in that case ICC try to do it within a reasonable timeframe. We are trying to make it as early as possible. If we are serious, ICC also will look into the matter seriously. Thats why we are in touch with ICC continuously, Chowdhury informed.
According to the law, both parties would have some say. Both parties will put their points which will determine how quickly the outcome will come. And the outcome will determine whether Taskin could get back to the game during the World T20.
The BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon earlier urged the ICC chairman Shashank Monohar and CEO Dav Richardson to stay the suspension of Taskin. They raised some strong points and logic to substantiate the grounds as to why the order should be reconsidered. The BCB said that the ICC guidelines were flouted in testing Taskins bowling action. BCBs lawyer Mustafizur Rahman Khan, also a SC lawyer, pointed out that Taskins stock delivery, the good length delivery, could not be faulted by the committee and hence the harshest possible punishment that could have been given to him is a warning.
Khan also said Taskin was asked to bowl nine bouncers in three minutes, out of which only three were found to have been bowled with an illegal action. Bowling nine bouncers in such quick succession would not be required of him in a T20 match. The committee certainly had not followed the ICC guidelines, he added.
But those grounds however hardly bothered the ICC technical committee. According to a BCB director, as per the changed law of ICC, the world cricket apex board wont reconsider any plea if they find just one delivery illegal. It meant the bowler would have to rehabilitation process in a bid to correct his bowling action.
