da betsul： The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the ICC to change the result of the Oval Test result against England
Cricinfo staff11-Jan-2008
Inzamam-ul-haq leads his team off the field at The Oval in 2006. © Getty Images
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the ICC to change the result of the Oval Test against England, played in August 2006, which was officially awarded as a forfeit to England.A senior board official confirmed to Cricinfo that the ICC cricketcommittee will consider an application from Pakistan in which they wantthe result of the Oval test overturned at their next meeting. The official said that Pakistan made the application last year and wanted the result declared abandoned or drawn.England were declared winners of the Test after Pakistan forfeitedthe match on the fourth day in protest over umpire Darrell Hair’s decisionto penalise them for alleged ball tampering. It was the first forfeitedresult in Test cricket.Pakistan refused to play on after tea once Hair had awarded England fivepenalty runs in their second innings for ball tampering. The issueescalated into a major row, with the ICC eventually dropping the balltampering charges against Pakistan but suspending then captain,Inzamam-ul-Haq for four matches for misconduct. The ICC later also stopped posting Hair in international matches, a stance it has yet to change.”We have made the application to the ICC and they will consider it at thenext cricket committee meeting,” the official told Cricinfo.Pakistan’s case, he added, was strengthened by the fact that Englandsupported the application when the matter was discussed at the executiveboard meeting of the ICC.”We have moved the application on the basis of the ICC dropping the balltampering charges against our team,” the official added.Inzamam told BBC’s Urdu service that Pakistanshould take a lead from the Indian board and push to change the result ofthe Oval Test. Inzamam was referring to the ICC’s decision to drop SteveBucknor from the Perth Test between India and Australia after the BCCIcomplained over Bucknor’s umpiring in Sydney. Inzamam said the Pakistanboard should pressurise the ICC because the ball tampering charges wereeventually dropped. England won the series 3-0.