"Limited-overs international status and records cover matches between national teams, not hotchpotch multi-national games with no significance beyond fundraising. In no sense should the game qualify for inclusion. This ruling ... will not have my support, and performances in the match will not be included in any records published under my name."

The noted statistician Bill Frindall's toys fly out of the pram after the ICC ruled that the tsunami relief matches would count as full ODIs