Bereaved Muthiah to miss two-day

CHENNAI, MAY 1: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President, Dr AC Muthiah, will not be attending the two-day meeting of the In...

CHENNAI, MAY 1: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President, Dr AC Muthiah, will not be attending the two-day meeting of the International Cricket Conference (ICC) at London beginning on Tuesday due to a bereavement in his family.

Dr Muthiah, who was to reach London from Frankfurt, had to return to Chennai following the sudden demise of his mother, Abhirami, according to his office here.

ICC will hold a two-day meeting at the Lord’s from Tuesday to decide its response to allegations of match-fixing, including the admission by sacked South African captain Hansie Cronje that he had taken up to $15,000 from a bookmaker.

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The difficulty for the ICC will be to distinguish rumour from fact and, to this end, Chief Executive David Richards has floated the idea of an amnesty for players presenting evidence of corruption, Reuter adds from London.

In a transcript of a television interview to be broadcast on Monday, Richards said an amnesty might be the way to move forward.

“We might have to do that in a discreet fashion,” Richards said.“ We might have to give an amnesty for people to bring forward that information.”

Anything would be better than the present corrosive climate of mistrust, innuendo and suspicion.

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