Loud Thinking

An open letter to the CEO ICC

Dear Mr. David John Richardson

CEO ICC

Greetings.

I take this opportunity to urge upon the ICC, to immediately impose a penalty of suitable ban (s) from Test matches, on South African captain GC Smith, for claiming a false catch of Misbah ul Haq, on the 2nd day (Tuesday,15 October, 2013) of the 1st Test match, being currently underway at Dubai, just like Ramdin, the West Indian Wicket Keeper, was punished by the ICC, for the same offence very recently, during the Champions Trophy in June, 2013; and also in the past Rashid Latif was imposed a 5 matches ban in the year 2003, for claiming a false catch of Alok Kapali, of Bangladesh’s team in 3rd Test match at Multan.

I firmly hope that it will not be a case of “what is good for goose is NOT good for the gander” and as the late world’s one of the famous commentator, Mr. Omar Qureshi once said “When a Pakistani umpire committed a mistake, it was called cheating and when foreign umpires did the same mistake, it was called a human error”.

Best regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad