Asia Cup final: ACC rejects Bangladesh's review plea

Asian Cricke­t Counci­l chief execut­ive says Bangla­desh was late in filing the appeal.

 

Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan (L-R), captain Mushfiqur Rahim, Nasir Hossain and Tamim Iqbal react after Pakistan won the final match. PHOTO: REUTERS

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has rejected Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) plea to review the last over of the Asia Cup final against Pakistan.

Talking to Express News, ACC Chief Executive Ashraful Haq said that Bangladesh was ‘too late’ in filing the appeal as they should have filed their complaint to the field umpire or the match referee during the match.

Haq said that the ACC cannot accept BCB’s application anymore.

Bangladesh had said that it would appeal to the ACC to review the last over, accusing Pakistani paceman Aizaz Cheema of deliberately blocking batsman Mahmudullah Riyad from taking a second run.

The BCB chairman had said that Bangladesh would demand five penalty runs which if granted could force the ACC to reverse the result of the match in which Pakistan won against Bangladesh by two runs.

Comments

Master stroke by Indian RAW………it seems Indians were unnerved by the tremendous love shown by th pakistani for their Bengali brothers & vice verca……terms like younger brother….etc. must have crushed the spirits of enemies of Pak Bangla relations.

How can they come to play in Pakistan, they want to keep their Indian masters happy!!

With Hasina in power you will never hear a good word about Muslims or Pakistanis. Mujib and his daughter were agents of India and still are….They are ruining all the goodwill in Pakistan for their Bengali brothers so what else is new and what else can expect. She is doing her job through her minions.

I have lost all my respect to Bangladeshi, im sorry. I love you Pakistan cricket Team.

India would not allow BD team to tour Pakistan. Stop the farce and let us accept it bitter truth. Pakistan should withdraw its support for Kamal as VP forthwith. If you are not with us, you are against us.

Bangladesh board should read the rules. The batsman is not supposed to run in mid wicket but off the center of the pitch, Cheema was where he was. And by this notion Pakistan should get five runs for blocking Afridi.

Stupid whiners. Atleast they could have accepted the defeat with some dignity.......as we say in urdu “izzat raas naii aii”

Just because you defeated India by chance doesn’t make you a number one team in the world. Bangladeshis should learn to accept the defeat. There are many more to come :-)

Shame on you BCB. We all knew what decision ACC was going to take. You could have avoided this humiliation by not pursuing this… You have done immense damage to Bangladesh cricket as a result of this….