Judge, Jury, Executioner or the Justice of the ICC and BCCI

Yesterday ICC came out with the statement:

"The ICC President David Morgan reported to the ICC’s commercial board (IDI) following recent discussions concerning the issues the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has in relation to the hosting of matches in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

"The IDI Board reaffirmed the decisions it took at its previous meetings (17 and 18 April in Dubai), that Pakistan would no longer be a host location for the tournament and that Lahore would be removed as the tournament’s administrative headquarters."

For the full statement see
http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/media-release/2009/june/media-release20090626-59.html

So one naturally wonders who is on this commercial board. While that may be hard to locate but let us look at the Commercial affairs committee that reports to this IDI entity. From the ICCs website:

ICC FINANCE AND COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
The Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee was established to report to the IDI Board on all matters relating to Finance. This includes ICC Events, Financial Results, Budget & Planning, Commercial Matters and Business Partner Program, Investment Program, tax planning, sponsorships and sale of commercial rights.


Chairman
Sharad Pawar
Members
Giles Clarke

Haroon Lorgat

David Morgan OBE

Neil Speight

Lalit Modi

Alan Isaac

http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/about-icc/executive.html

moved to http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/the-icc/about_the_organisation/icc_committees.php


If you are not yet laughing or crying that is probably due to the fact you have no clue who these gentlemen are. It seems when Morgan and Lorgat sit and talk about the decisions being handed down by the IDIs commercial arm they are in fact talking about themselves in third person. To top it off the chairman Sharad Pawar is the head of the Indian board with whom the dispute needs to be resolved and of course there is the ever present Mr. Modi of the "ad hoc IPL rules to exclude the PCB team." But we are not done yet. The supposed neutral mediator that the ICC has appointed to "help" Pakistan remain in the cricket community (whatever that means) , Giles Clarke, is also a member of this esteemed body.

http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/about-icc/executive.html