India Bangladesh: ICC states its support for match officials
“The ICC has noted Mr Mustafa Kamal’s comments, which are very unfortunate but made in his personal capacity. As an ICC President, he should have been more considerate in his criticism of ICC match officials, whose integrity cannot be questioned," Richardson said in a statement.
“The no-ball decision was a 50-50 call. The spirit of the game dictates that the umpire’s decision is final and must be respected," he said.
“Any suggestion that the match officials had “an agenda” or did anything other than perform to the best of their ability are baseless and are refuted in the strongest possible terms," he said.
“We now look forward to an exciting last few matches of what has been a very successful and interesting ICC Cricket World Cup 2015," he said.
Bangladesh fans have earlier expressed their disappointment over umpiring decision during the match.
Kamal told ABP News: “It could be deliberate. Though I can’t say it absolutely but it looks like that. I know in cricket, human errors are quite possible, but how can a dozen of decisions go against Bangladesh? It was very, very poor umpiring.”
India defeated Bangladesh to reach the semi-finals on Thursday.
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