Indian players didn't attend ICC award ceremony

[achilles]

BCCI claims breach of protocol over awards invite The International Cricket Council (ICC) and the BCCI came close to yet another confrontation on Tuesday with ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat calling the Indian team’s absence from the ICC awards ceremony not befitting of the team’s stature even as the board slammed the ICC for not adhering to “prescribed protocol” while inviting a side. According to sources, the BCCI is miffed that the invite wasn’t sent to secretary N Srinivasan as per protocol and that was one of the reasons why there was no formal instruction from the board to the Indian team to make an appearance. This fiasco comes as the latest in a series of events hinting at a divide between the ICC and the BCCI, including the disagreements over the Decision Review System and the inclusion of Associate teams at the 2015 World Cup. “It’s a great shame and disappointing that not long ago they were the number one Test team in the World,” Lorgat said. “They won the World Cup in such great style. And there were many fans and people looking forward to their attendance. It’s a shame that they did not attend. I know for a fact that my team had invited them some months back. We probably have confirmation of their likely attendance and in fact the very date was scheduled around their availability in London. Well, they haven’t and the England team has attended. “I know for a fact that they were invited. We sent those invitations through the BCCI. Perhaps that’s the question which should be asked to the BCCI.” The BCCI maintained that the ICC had not followed the exact procedure and reiterated that there was just a mail to BCCI’s email ID instead of addressing the invite to the secretary. “They had informed us verbally about the event and said the Indian team should come. After some time they sent an invitation via email to the BCCI’s Mumbai office. Such invitations are sent to the secretary’s office on his email ID which is with the ICC. That is the proper protocol. In fact, for all other important and confidential matters, the ICC corresponds directly with N Srinivasan on his email. So how come the ICC doesn’t know which email ID they need to send the invite to? There’s a particular procedure to invite a team and its officials,” a top BCCI official told The Indian Express. The Indian team management in London, for their part, maintained that the team was told about the event only at the last minute and were initially scheduled to be travelling to Cardiff for the fifth ODI. Team manager Shivlal Yadav said that the Indians had been informed about the ceremony only at noon on the day of the awards, and that “the players were already away, some shopping, some sight-seeing as this was their final day of stay in London”. BCCI vice president Rajiv Shukla, who attended the ceremony, said he wasn’t aware that the Indian team wouldn’t show up. “I thought those who have been nominated would be attending the function,” said Shukla. “It is the prerogative of the players whether to attend the function or not.” Dhoni won the Spirit of Cricket award while England players Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook won the ICC Cricketer of the Year award and Test Cricketer of the Year award respectively. Lorgat, though, wished that Dhoni received the award in person. “There is the Spirit of Cricket Award that went to MS Dhoni for the wonderful leadership he showed when he recalled Ian Bell (during Trent Bridge Test). It was a deserving award and quite a shame that he was not there to accept it.”

I'll got with the Indian Express. Seems like the Indians weren't even invited properly. So much for "Indian clout".

[ganeshran]

[asterix]

N Srini The man got miffed that his "office didn't recieved the formal invitation", ordered the Indian team to give the event a miss.. N Srini's BCCI presidency will be exciting.. :hatsoff: What a GANGSTA!

[achilles]

^ Yes. He's got the capability to be the next Lalit Modi :D

[Pagalpanti]

:hysterical: What a ridiculous reason to boycott the meeting lol.

[keyboardist]

Only if ICC made the event look a tad bit like the IPL after match parties, this incident wouldn't have happened. You ask men to wear suits and ladies to wear gowns and complain that the free spirited Indians didn't show up. How lame is that!!! Hell, why didn't ICC hire Modi as the event manager. He is in London. Haroon Lorgat, not only do you sound like Abysmal from Alladdin - the cartoon show, you are thinking like him too. :hysterical: There is one more reason why Team India didn't show up. Find it here http://www.thecricketist.com/2011/09/misplaced-punctuation-mark-and-small.html

[ganeshran]

Were all the players from all the countries present at the ceremony? Was it mandatory to attend? If not, then why such a brouhaha over our players not attending?

[asterix]

Were all the players from all the countries present at the ceremony? Was it mandatory to attend? If not, then why such a brouhaha over our players not attending?

Imagin an ICC event happening in The Taj in Mumbai and the England team staying in Mumbai giving it a miss.. Wonder if that would've created any brouhaha or not.. The ICC had another option to organise it in Colombo where Australia & SL series going on. I would've understood the reason if England & India would'nt have made it.. It's not compulsory to attend these ICC awards events, however this time the Indian team was made to look like sore losers and gave more ammunition to the media here and also to the SKY TV commentators for the last match and to really rub it in. All these things shouldn't matter in India although. The starry eyes fans must be eagerly awaiting for the champion team to return and the Champions League to start..

[Sachin=GOD]

Whatever the Indian team or the BCCI does these days makes news

[saneindian]

All it required was a bit of common sense and someone with good PR skills to sort out the issue and send a few players for the event, if not the entire team. Doesn't look good to skip such prestigious events.

[TheYuvi02]

N Srini The man got miffed that his "office didn't recieved the formal invitation", ordered the Indian team to give the event a miss.. N Srini's BCCI presidency will be exciting.. :hatsoff: What a GANGSTA!

N srinivasan needs to go :finger: himself

[ganeshran]

Imagin an ICC event happening in The Taj in Mumbai and the England team staying in Mumbai giving it a miss.. Wonder if that would've created any brouhaha or not.. The ICC had another option to organise it in Colombo where Australia & SL series going on. I would've understood the reason if England & India would'nt have made it.. It's not compulsory to attend these ICC awards events, however this time the Indian team was made to look like sore losers and gave more ammunition to the media here and also to the SKY TV commentators for the last match and to really rub it in. All these things shouldn't matter in India although. The starry eyes fans must be eagerly awaiting for the champion team to return and the Champions League to start..

You have maintained your track record of constantly whining about every single thing the team and BCCI does :nice: If the English team had decided to give it a miss, then so be it. Unless attending an event is mandatory or every other team has full attendance, it makes no difference whether Team India attended it or not. It is entirely theirs and BCCI's prerogative to do so.

[asterix]

You have maintained your track record of constantly whining about every single thing the team and BCCI does :nice: If the English team had decided to give it a miss, then so be it. Unless attending an event is mandatory or every other team has full attendance, it makes no difference whether Team India attended it or not. It is entirely theirs and BCCI's prerogative to do so.

:hatsoff: Whatever keeps your boat floating.. Good to see you keeping your track record on taking potshots at members..

[Trichromatic]

If the English team had decided to give it a miss, then so be it. Unless attending an event is mandatory or every other team has full attendance, it makes no difference whether Team India attended it or not. It is entirely theirs and BCCI's prerogative to do so.

It's not about whether the attendance is mandatory or not. When ICC organizes such event, then everyone expects Indian team to attend it. Unless there are some good reasons, skipping such events isn't a good idea.

[yoda]

When have the BCCI and ICC gotten along? Some shyte always seems to happen between the two organizations.

[ganeshran]

It's not about whether the attendance is mandatory or not. When ICC organizes such event, then everyone expects Indian team to attend it. Unless there are some good reasons, skipping such events isn't a good idea.

I dont see it as expected at all. Maybe for the BCCI officials it could be a part of protocol. Players not attending is entirely their prerogative, especially in the middle of a tour.

[Trichromatic]

Players not attending is entirely their prerogative' date=' [b']especially in the middle of a tour.

It's not players' prerogative. They don't decide whether they have to attend it or not. Team management and the board decide it. Anyways, it's not the fault of the team. Players will do what management tells them. For such events they add it to the schedule. In this case, team management didn't add the event to their schedule because for some unknown reasons BCCI didn't want players to attend the event. Other teams can attend the event from SL, Zimbabwe etc especially in the middle of the tour and Indian team can't do that even when they are in England.

[Sachin=GOD]

You now guarantee the ICC will screw India more now than ever. I can see more shocking decisions going against India from all ICC umpires.

ICC doesn't have the b@lls to do that.

[TheYuvi02]

You now guarantee the ICC will screw India more now than ever. I can see more shocking decisions going against India from all ICC umpires.

Dude that's the excuse of Pakis, ICC wont dare do a damn thing against the most powerful cricket board

[speed_demon]

BCCI official told Indian team to skip ICC awards Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his teammates skipped and Ã…Ãot boycotted the ICC awards function in London on Monday primarily because some big BCCI ego came in the way. It is learnt that a senior Chennai-based Board of Control for Cricket in India official asked the team to ÅÂvoid the most respected awards in the cricketing world. Å´ince his office was not formally invited, he asked the players to avoid attending the function, an insider told HT on Tuesday. Å¢nd the players were happy to oblige. After the drubbing theyÃ×e got at the hands of England,... they had no problems in taking minds off cricket. Though the International Cricket Council did not invite the official, it did send a formal invite to the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai. The official was unavailable for comment, while BCCI chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty refused to speak on the matter. BoardÃÔ vice-president Rajiv Shukla, however, was at the function presided over by Sharad Pawar, the ICC chief. Another reason being given for Team IndiaÃÔ no-show was that some players took offence to being told ÅÕo be ready for the function in the invite. It was a shame that the Indian team members did not attend the event though they were in London and invited, said ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat.