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| BCCI gives Pawar decisive power |
| .The BCCI has given its chief Sharad Pawar unprecedented emergency powers to call off the Australia tour
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| INDIA
, 11-January-2008
9:23:41 AM |
| The BCCI has given its chief Sharad Pawar unprecedented emergency powers to call off the Australia tour.
It emerged last night that senior Indian players are behind a push to boycott this summer's triangular one-day series.
Pawar told the Herald Sun the Board of Cricket Control of India had taken a vote to allow him personally to decide the fate of the tour of Australia if Harbhajan Singh was not cleared on appeal of racially abusing Andrew Symonds and his three-match ban overturned.
The decision of this magnitude would usually have to be voted on by the BCCI board, but so angry are officials that president Pawar - arguably the game's most powerful man because of India's financial dominance - can now make this call without discussion.
It's also a clear sign the BCCI is ready to act on the wishes of its senior players - Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and captain Anil Kumble - who are fuming at recent events.
Pawar said the threat of axing the tour was real if the ban remained.
"Let's just see what happens, but allegations of racism against a member of our cricket team is not acceptable," he said from New Delhi. "After the meeting, we then will take action."
In response to the power vested in him Pawar said, "That is true but I will only use the power in support of Harbhajan for the rest of the country," he said.
Player anger was highlighted this week when the tourists stayed in Sydney and threatened to go home unless Harbhajan's appeal hearing was granted by the ICC.
While that crisis was averted, it's now understood Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid and Kumble have told the board the team will consider pulling out of the one-day series unless Harbhajan is cleared.
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