{"id":20786,"date":"2013-06-28T23:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/fica-responds-to-iccs-disappointment\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:11:15","slug":"fica-responds-to-iccs-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fica-responds-to-iccs-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"FICA responds to ICC\u2019s disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=6693\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6693\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6693 alignright\" alt=\"FICA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/e8d4c_FICA.jpg\" width=\"316\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Marsh, the Executive Chairman of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federation of International Cricketers' Associations\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federation_of_International_Cricketers%27_Associations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Federation of International Cricketers\u2019 Associations<\/a> (FICA) issued the following response today to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/icc-disappointed-in-fica\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICC media release<\/a> in relation to the ICC Cricket Committee voting issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ICC\u2019s media release is a disappointing attempt to deflect attention from the real issue here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clear facts of this matter are that FICA has evidence that Boards pressured Captains into changing their votes in the process of electing the players\u2019 representative to the ICC Cricket Committee. We believe this is a clear breach of the ICC\u2019s own Code of Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>We asked the ICC to follow their own processes and independently investigate this matter more than 6 weeks ago. They have refused to do this and instead have tried to get FICA to accept a compromised approach that would ensure this matter isn\u2019t independently investigated by the Ethics Officer. We have refused this approach based on principle,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that the ICC won\u2019t refer this matter to the Ethics Officer, FICA is now trying to do so directly. Whilst the ICC have expressed anger and disappointment at what they perceive to be a \u2018confrontational\u2019 approach from FICA, we are simply trying to do what the ICC is obligated to do themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the ICC is confident that its Directors have acted in a manner that is in accordance with their own Code of Ethics then they should have no concerns with allowing this investigation to run its course,\u201d Marsh concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/05719_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Marsh, the Executive Chairman of the Federation of International Cricketers\u2019 Associations (FICA) issued the following response today to the ICC media release in relation to the ICC Cricket Committee voting issue. \u201cThe ICC\u2019s media release is a disappointing attempt to deflect attention from the real issue here. \u201cThe clear facts of this matter are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}