The International Cricket Council aka ICC will go on to review the criticism made by Mickey Arthur following the India vs Pakistan World Cup clash. After the conclusion of the mega encounter Pakistan’s team director Micket Arthur commented that the game was more of a bilateral series which sparked the ICC to conduct a review.
The absence of any Pakistani fans at the Narendra Modi stadium which hosted 1.3 lakh Indians on 14th October drove Arthur to make the comment. He claimed that the Men in Green had no support on the ground. Only a handful of Pakistani journalists got their visas approved for the ICC World Cup.
“Look, I’d be lying if I said it did [not affect us],” Arthur said after the match. “It didn’t seem like an ICC event, to be brutally honest. It seemed like a bilateral series; it seemed like a BCCI event.”
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Pakistan team director Mickey Arthur was dissatisfied after India registered a comprehensive victory over Pakistan on Saturday at the Narendra Modi Stadium here and questioned the one-sided nature of the fan base. Considered to be one of the most fierce rivalries in the world of cricket, the India-Pakistan clash took place in the world’s biggest stadium – Narendra Modi Stadium. Home fans turned up in large numbers to support the ‘Men in Blue’
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ICC Greg Barclay was rather soft with his reply after Arthur’s criticism. He said, “Every event that we have, there’s always criticisms from various quarters. Things that perhaps we’ll take away and try to work on, try to do better… so this event’s only [at] the start. Let’s see how the whole thing plays out and we’ll go away and we’ll review what could change, what we can do better, how we can improve World Cups and the general offering around cricket.”
“We will just take it as it plays out, get to the end of the event. I’m satisfied that it will still be an outstanding World Cup, ” he added.
