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BCCI hopes referee will give 'poor' rating!

Updated on: 28 December,2009 11:33 AM IST  | 
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India will be hoping they get a Christmas gift from match referee Alan Hurst this year.

BCCI hopes referee will give 'poor' rating!

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will be hoping they get a Christmas gift from match referee Alan Hurst this year.



If Hurst rates the disgraceful Kotla pitch as "poor" and not "unfit" then Delhi will escape suspension. However, if the referee's verdict is otherwise and the International Cricket Council (ICC)'s cricket committee chairman Clive Lloyd concurs, then a ban of between 12 and 24 months will be slapped, reports The Telegraph.



This will put Kotla's chances of hosting the four matches in the 2011 World Cup, the first of which (South Africa versus the West Indies) is scheduled for February 24 in jeopardy. The last, India against The Netherlands, is on March 9.



"Clearly, the BCCI has no choice but to hope that the match referee's report says the pitch was 'poor'... If the word 'unfit' is used, then there's a major problem for the BCCI and Delhi," a well-placed source told The Telegraph.


Speaking on Sunday, the source added: "Lloyd apart, the ICC's general manager (cricket), Dave Richardson, and Chief Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle would come into the picture if Hurst gives the pitch an 'unfit' label..."


Incidentally, neither "poor" nor "unfit" were mentioned in Hurst's statement to the media. His report to the ICC, supposed to be confidential, will follow.

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