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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > Indian Cricket Team's South Africa Tour > ICC gets a searing ‘bouncer’ from South African Govt 16.46 IST 23rd Nov 2001 By IndiaExpress Bureau The South African Government took the International Cricket Council to task for refusing to replace Mike Denness as the match-referee for the third Test against India. "Numerous efforts have already been made by both South Africa and India to persuade the ICC to reconsider its stance on the matter. We view your reluctance to do so in a rather serious light and believe that it does not serve the best interest of cricket," South African Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour said in his letter to the ICC. Mr. Balfour justified the decision of the South African Cricket Board to sack Denness, saying it had to be done to avoid tension in the "very strong sporting and political relations" with India. "The current position has potential to cause tremendous tension between our two countries and as government, we support the UCBSA in all its efforts to salvage the match and its attempts to persuade the ICC to replace the designated referee," Mr. Balfour said. "We respectfully differ with your judgement on this matter and even at this eleventh hour we urge you to accede to the request on the replacement of the match referee. "We do not believe that this would set a precedent and trust that this matter will be resolved amicably", said the letter. "We do not want to discuss the merit of the decisions of the referee, but we want to appeal to you to give the UCBSA special permission to replace the designated match referee. "This in no way should be viewed as an attempt to discredit the integrity of Mr. Denness but should rather be seen as a pragmatic way of addressing an issue that is not of the making of the South African cricket authorities", he said. in-depth coverage > Indian Cricket Team's South Africa Tour > |
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