September 25 2008
The ICC has given Indian Cricket League (ICL) an opportunity to get an official authorization by presenting its case. The meet has been scheduled between Subhash Chandra (the Indian businessman owning the league) and David Morgan (ICC president) in London.
The meeting of these two senior persons has been planned to take place in the first week of October.
Morgan will report back to the board of directors of ICC about the meeting outcomes. There are some tournaments coming in near future; it will be ICL’s second session of domestic and international matches. These Twenty20 matches will start on October 10.
Morgan told that ICL had requested ICC for approval recently, and later on they asked for meeting.
We agreed on their suggestion and scheduled this meeting. He told that all members of the council have been told about this upcoming meeting. The board of directors of ICC is having meeting in Dubai on October 14 & 15, in which report of meeting with ICL will be presented by Morgan.
However, ICL will also be looking forward to know about the official report on that meeting.
This was said by Himanshu Mody, who is the business head of ICL. However, this is an additional demand, this is also enough that ICC has agreed upon meeting with ICL and ICL welcomes it.
The news came out that Chandra will be heading the members of the ICL management for the meeting. Chandra is an Indian businessman. He is the owner of Zee Entertainment
Enterprises Limited and also owning the ICL. In that meeting ICL will try to get official sanction under Rule 32 of the ICC operations manual. This rule relates to authorized unofficial cricket.
Presently, this rule is addressing the Stanford venture which will be held in West Indies and the upcoming Hong Kong Sixes tournament.
However, the case of ICL is different from these two mentioned ones, because it is the league which has not been endorsed by its home board – BCCI. The ban has been imposed by Indian board on all ICL players; they cannot play any form of official cricket and they even cannot use any of the facilities offered to cricket players.
