da spicy bet： The International Cricket Council (ICC) chief Malcolm Gray has saidthat the Indian Sports Minister Uma Bharati never ruled out Indiaplaying in Pakistan but had only slammed the Board of Control forCricket in India officials for jumping the gun
da leao： 13-Jun-2001The International Cricket Council (ICC) chief Malcolm Gray has saidthat the Indian Sports Minister Uma Bharati never ruled out Indiaplaying in Pakistan but had only slammed the Board of Control forCricket in India officials for jumping the gun regarding the officialannouncement.”The minister never said India would not play in Pakistan. She onlyhit out at the Indian board for making the announcement before gettingthe approval from the country’s foreign affairs ministry,” Gray saidin Sharjah on Tuesday.”The Indian Sports Minister has written to the ICC explaining theirstand,” he said adding that India was not averse to playing Pakistanin a multination contest.Gray admitted that ICC did not have much clout to do anything if Indiarefused to play. “At the most they may lose points” he told reporters."Now that we have a Test championship in place, what we can do is todeduct the points if a particular country refused to play with theother for political reason,” he said.As for tackling the issue of non-regular venues (as Bharti describedsome), he said programming of the cricket schedule on a more globalbasis by the ICC could help solve the problem.
