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Chappell censures ICC
NEW DELHI. Feb 5: Former Australian captain Ian Chappell wants cricket’s rulers to display "much-needed leadership In tackling the crisis caused by Australia's World Cup boycott of Sri Lanka, report agencies.
la an article written a day before Australia formally announced Its decision not to play in Colombo because of security fears, the out-spoken ex-Test star took a sWtpe at the International Cricket Council, the game's governing body.
“This is a chance for cricket s administrators to recover some of the credibility that has been lost in recent years through inept decision-making. Chappell wrote In the Indian Express today.
"I hope they take the opportunity to display sdme much-needed leadership and avoid cricket suffering yet another ignominy wtth a forfeited international match." he wrote.
Chappell said Australia's SXSJUOaUg-poor light a few years on. especially if terms such as Zimbabwe and Kenya agree to play in Sri Lanka and don't experience any trouble."
The ICC has to come out and say that either all four
matches are to be played in Sri Lanka, or those games have been rescheduled and will be played elsewhere. Chappell wrote.
Chappell, who will be a television commentator at the World Cup. said the bomb blasts in Colombo last week which killed 80 people and injured 1.400. could not have come at a worst time.
"I don't think it Is being too cynical to assume that the timing was perfectly planned by the terrorists to nave maximum effect." he wrote.
"However. I would feel much better if'I knew that the Australian Cricket Board (ACB). alongwifh the foreign affairs department, was exploring every contingency plan to ensure the Australian could full their playing obligations.
While, in Sydney, captain Mark Taylor said. Australia's World Cup players did not
pressure the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) Into boycotting their opening series game in Colombo.
Taylor was speaking soon after the ACB announced in Melbourne that Australia would not be playing their World Cup match in Sri Lanka on February 17 and had asked the Cup's organising committee for another venue to stage it.
Taylor said he had last spoken with the ACB through its chief executive Graham Halbish last Thursday and there was no lobbying of the ACB by the players for each its decision Monday.
"There was no pressure on the ACB from the players." Taylor said here at a press conference. The boa rtf has made an unanimous decision which took things out of the players' hands."
In Colombo. Sri Lankan cricketers expressed disappointment at the Australian decision to keep away from the opening match in Colombo.
"We don't want to’earn points without playing the match," Sri Lanka's vice captain Aravlnda de Silva told AFP. "We would very much like the Australians to come. But there is nothing we can do about it."
Sri Lanka's manager Dulip Mendis said he was yet to be officially Informed of the Australia decision.
He said his team would Ijegin practices on Tuesday to prepare for the series.