Peeved Pakistan to raise IPL snub row with ICC
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January 23, 2010, Saturday
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THE Pakistan Cricket Board will file a complaint with the ICC after its players were ignored during the IPL auction earlier this week.
The eight IPL franchises on Tuesday did not bid for any Pakistan cricketers, including its Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi.
Pakistan sports minister Ijaz Jhakrani called the exclusion of Pakistan players "a serious issue." "How can they (IPL franchises) avoid bidding for players from the world champion team?" he said.
Pakistan is the reigning Twenty20 world champion after winning the title in England last year.
After meeting the PCB chairman in Lahore, Jhakrani said "it's our unanimous decision to take up this issue at the highest forum and lodge our protest at the ICC."
There has been anger in Pakistan over the auction with effigies of IPL commissioner Lalit Modi burned in several cities. The speaker of the lower house had also stopped a parliamentary delegation from traveling to India in protest.
Modi blamed the media for the uproar and denied there was any conspiracy against Pakistan players.
"The media is biased. No one talks about the players from countries like Australia, Canada and Zimbabwe not being picked in the auction. There was no preconceived conspiracy to leave Pakistani players," Press Trust of India quoted Modi as saying.
The auction featured 66 international players available for just 11 slots, with West Indies' Kieron Adrian Pollard joining the Mumbai Indians after attracting an undisclosed fee, exceeding his price of US$750,000 per season.
A BCCI official denied that the cricket board or Indian government blocked the selection of Pakistan players.
"The BCCI has no role. And the choice of the individual team owners should not be mixed up with government policy," he said. "It is possible that some franchisees could have displayed interest in the Pakistani players and then changed their minds according to their needs."
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