Reserve day for Pakistan vs India recreation: ‘You are a catastrophe,’ says Ranatunga
Criticising the choice so as to add a reserve day for the Asia Cup Super Four match between Pakistan and India – the one recreation within the event aside from the ultimate to get the benefit – after the event had began, Arjuna Ranatunga has warned that favouring one group (learn India) over others will put worldwide cricket in peril.
“You take the Asia Cup. You have rules before the tournament, but before that one game, they changed the rules,” Ranatunga was quoted by PTI as saying at an interplay with members of the media. “Where is ACC? Where is ICC? I am not very comfortable when you have a tournament where you change rules for one team. You are looking at a disaster in the future.
“I really feel very unhappy for ICC and ACC as a result of they only wish to maintain the positions. Former cricketers too do not open, just because they want the bucks.”
The Asia Cup had started on August 30, and the marquee Pakistan vs India contest on September 2 produced no result after rain forced the match to be abandoned after one innings. That match was hosted in Pallekele. The playing conditions were then changed on September 8, two days before the Pakistan vs India Super Four game in Colombo, giving that game a reserve day.
At the time, Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe and Sri Lanka coach Chris Silverwood had expressed their shock on the replace. “I have not seen this sort of factor in one other event, this altering guidelines in the midst of the event,” Hathurusinghe had said at a press conference, while Silverwood had said, “It was a little bit shock once I first heard [that].”
“I will not be shocked if they alter the rule earlier than the India-Pakistan recreation [at the upcoming ODI World Cup],” Ranatunga went on. “ICC will preserve their mouth shut and say ‘okay, do it’. ICC simply talks garbage, nothing occurs.”
Ranatunga said world cricket should not be governed by one board or individual, and that other boards should stand up for their rights.
“Why do the opposite nations permit that to occur,” Ranatunga said. “Because the BCCI is highly effective, or one explicit individual is highly effective. No, it could actually’t occur like that. They ought to have given an additional day for all of the video games if that was the case.”