N Srinivasan scripted India’s win against Bangladesh in World Cup 2015 quarterfinal?
Mumbai: The relationship between former ICC president Mustafa Kamal and chairman N Srinivasan is far from being over. Couple of days after Bangladesh’s first-ever ODI series win against India, Kamal dug into the past and accused Srinivasan of scripting India’s win against The Tigers in the quarterfinal of ICC World Cup 2015.
In an interview with cricketnext, he said: “My point was there was no fair play. It was the decision of the ICC. Who runs ICC? It is the president or the chairman. Since I didn't do anything wrong, then who did the wrong? It is the chairman. Obviously, it goes against him. Why on that day the spider camera was not there? Why on that day technology was not used? Why on that day the giant screen wasn't used?”
Kamal further said that the giant screen displayed “Jeetega Jeetega India jeetega, Australia haarega” since the Aussies were already in the semifinals.
“Could you say like that? So why against Bangladesh? And I was representing Bangladesh. I was there to look after the interest of cricket and that day if it would have happened against Zimbabwe, I would have still definitely raised my voice. Because I saw it and it was injustice. You tell me, is there any match played in Melbourne without a camera?”
Kamal asserted that the man who does all such wrongdoing in India is the man who could do the same in Melbourne.
Talking about Srinivasan’s presence in the presentation ceremony, he stated that nobody appreciated the chairman doing the honours knowing well that it is the president who does it.
“That is his bad luck and he has defamed himself and he has defamed this grand game of cricket and the institution itself. So I think it was not a good way or a good gesture of a human being. It should not have been like that. I could do many things. I could go to the ground. I could give the trophy because I was the president and I knew my obligations. I could make an objection there. But I didn't want to go that way,” Kamal added.
