‘Pak saved our bid’

A top BCCI official has said the Asian bloc almost lost the bid to host the 2011 World Cup due to the “non-cooperative attitude” of the previous regime and it was the Pakistan Cricket Board which came to the rescue.

A top BCCI official has said the Asian bloc almost lost the bid to host the 2011 World Cup due to the “non-cooperative attitude” of the previous regime and it was the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which came to the rescue.

Senior BCCI functionary I S Bindra, who represented India in the ICC’s executive board meeting in Dubai on Sunday, claimed the previous regime had not passed on any information and files pertaining to ICC for the last 10 years, including the ICC compliance manual that all bidders had to compulsorily answer.

“We failed miserably because the old board had not passed on any information and documents… and they were not even aware that a compliance report had to be submitted,” said Bindra.

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“It was Pakistan that informed us a few days before the bid submission deadline of February 28 and you can’t ask for government guarantees in such a short time,” he said.

Bindra said the new BCCI office-bearers came to know about the ICC compliance manual when they went to Lahore to watch the Pakistan-India One-Day International on February 13.

“We would have lost by default. Unfortunately, all files about ICC were lying in Kolkata, and even BCCI president, secretary or treasurer had not seen those files for 10 years,” he was quoted as saying by Gulf News today.

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