CoA pleased with ICC's decision to rule in BCCI’s favour in MoU dispute

The International Cricket Council(ICC) has dismissed the Pakistan Cricket Board’s case against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in which the Pakistan Board had claimed compensation in the tune of 70 million USD. The PCB had alleged that the Indian Cricket Board did not play any bilateral cricket after signing the MoU accepting to do so. 

“We will make a presentation to the panel and demand entire cost of compensation to be borne by the PCB for the arbitration where there claims have been dismissed.”  

“The PCB notes with regret the decision of the Disputes Resolution Committee,” their statement said.

The panel was chaired by Hon. Michael Beloff QC, an English barrister and a member of Blackstone Chambers, Jan Paulsson and Annabelle Bennett in hearings that took place in Dubai from October 1-3. The issue is an old one when then BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel in 2014 had signed a one-page document which BCCI always termed as the 'proposal letter’ to play six bilateral series between 2015 to 2023 on home-and-away basis. The PCB banking on the document filed for compensation claiming revenue loss but the ICC dismissed the case stating the agreement was not binding.

“The Panel accepts that the awareness of the BCCI’s claimed need for government approval was indeed reflected not only in PCB e-mails but also in minutes of PCB board meetings, all of which were aggregated in the BCCIs helpful schedule to its written submissions,” the ICC judgement read.