No Regrets For ECB
By Paul Bakel
March 9 2003
England cricket bosses insist they have no regrets over the Zimbabwe boycott which cost them their World Cup dream.
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England cricket bosses insist they have no
regrets over the Zimbabwe boycott which cost them their World Cup dream.
Nasser Hussain's team returned home after being eliminated from the
tournament prior to the Super Six stages - largely because their refusal
to play in Harare cost them four expected points. But the England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tim Lamb said
he was satisfied with the decisions made. Lamb told the BBC's Breakfast With Frost: "The ECB management board met
earlier in the week and went through the sequence of events and the
general consensus was that it was difficult to see how we could have done
anything different. "It was a blow that we didn't get through to the Super Sixes - we
should have beaten Australia and clearly losing the points from a match we
were expected to win (in Zimbabwe) ruined our chances in the World Cup. "But at the end of the day our decision not to send the players was
borne out of our duty of care - imagine how we would have lived with
ourselves if anything had happened in Harare." Lamb admitted he was expecting to fight a hefty compensation claim from
the International Cricket Board's commercial partners, the Global Cricket
Corporation. But he insisted the ECB would mount a strong case in their defence and
were confident of winning any ensuing battle. Lamb added: "We believe we have a strong legal case and we will defend
that - but it remains to be seen what sort of damages are claimed."
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