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Nor was the schedule of test series set up on the fly. Players are always fit and available for leagues but not for national side event. There must be some schedule like we have in football, where leagues don't interfere with national side schedule.
Was anyother team like Sri lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh allowed to do the same with ECB? I really doubt.
BCCI sitting at top as far as food chain is concern, this doesn't surprise anyone tbh.
ECB and CA rolled over CSA last year. ICC did nothing and BCCI did the same with ECB.
Indian team was in England for 4 months and BCCI tried their best to move Old Trafford test to early as possible but ECB repeatedly declined the request because they wanted to take care of "The 100".
The BCCI president (Sourav Ganguly) has issued a statement. He has said that the replacement match for the 5th test should be considered as a continuation of the England vs India series. This contradicts the report made by an Indian news paper, which claimed that Ganguly wanted the replacement match as a one-off event. But implicaitons are greater than a series loss for the ECB. If the ICC rules that the action by BCCI amounted to "acceptable non-compliance", then the ECB won't be able to claim the insurance payment for the abandoned test.
Is this recent statement? Sounds silly to me.