Recently, tension has increased between the cricket boards of India and Bangladesh. This whole controversy started from there, when on the instructions of BCCI, KKR franchise released Bangladeshi fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has even banned the telecast of IPL in its country. He has even demanded to have his T20 World Cup matches held in Sri Lanka.
Amidst all this, the first ODI match between India vs New Zealand was played in Vadodara, in which the name of Bangladesh’s Sharafuddaula Saikat is also in the list of match officials i.e. umpires. Sharafuddaula is playing the role of third umpire in the first ODI match between India and New Zealand.
On one hand, Bangladesh Cricket Board had expressed concern about the security of its players and staff in India in a letter written to ICC. So how did it happen that BCB did not stop its umpire from coming to India. Know what is ICC’s rule regarding this?
How did Bangladeshi umpire come to India?
Those who play the role of umpiring in international cricket matches have a contract with ICC. The International Cricket Council divides umpires into two categories. Umpires are divided into ICC Elite Panel and ICC International Panel categories.
These umpires are appointed by ICC and only ICC can remove them. Therefore, it is not decided by BCCI, BCB or the cricket board of any other country as to which country and who will be the umpire in an international cricket match. This is the work of ICC, so even if Bangladesh Cricket Board wanted, it could not have stopped Sharafuddaula from coming to India.
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