PCB to say yes to UDRS, no to end rotational policy on ICC president

Pakistan's cricket chief has vowed to safeguard his country's rights after proposed constitutional changes by the game's world governing body, which meets in Hong Kong from Sunday

Pakistan's cricket chief has vowed to safeguard his country's rights after proposed constitutional changes by the game's world governing body, which meets in Hong Kong from Sunday. The two-day International Cricket Council (ICC) Executive Board meeting, preceded by a chief executive meeting, will consider two significant changes to the ICC constitution.


Ijaz Butt

If approved, these could hurt Pakistan's interests because the first amendment would allow the ICC to suspend a member country in the event of government interference in the running of a national cricket board. In Pakistan, the country's president is the cricket board's patron. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh could also be hit by any changes.

The second amendment proposes changes to the process for nomination of the ICC president and vice-president. Currently, the ICC president is elected from full-member countries on a rotation basis ufffd Pakistan and Bangladesh have their turn after 2014.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt told reporters before leaving for Hong Kong late Friday: "It's Pakistan's turn to nominate the president or the vice-president so we will not allow anyone to snatch that right.

"We have already shown our reservations on both the amendments and since the matter will be discussed at the meeting I am not going to make it more public."u00a0PCB will also support the implementation of the Umpires Decision Review System. India is the only country to oppose the UDRS and is set to do that again at ICC meetings.

"We really don't know why India is opposing the UDRS. They must have their reasons but as far as we are concerned we are satisfied with the impact it has had so far in Test and ODI cricket and we felt the World Cup was a good example of this system working and getting better in future," Butt said.

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