ILLY_BIDS_CLEAR_NAME_02SEP1996
On Tuesday, chairman of the England selectors goes up before the appeals panel of the International Cricket Council to make one last bid to leave the game with his good name intact
02-Sep-1996
2nd Sept 1996
Illingworth makes final bid to clear his name
Rediff on the Net
On Tuesday, chairman of the England selectors goes up before the
appeals panel of the International Cricket Council to make one
last bid to leave the game with his good name intact.
At Lord`s, the panel will review Illy`s request that the 2,000
pound fine handed out by the TCCB disciplinary committee in June
be quashed.
The disciplinary committee had found him guilty of bringing the
game into dispute via newspaper articles that were based on his
controversial book, `One-Man Committee`. Illy was also charged
with making public statements that were possibly prejudicial to
the interests of cricket - the passages detailing his falling out
with England pace bowler Devon Malcolm during the 1995 winter
tour of South Africa, and his detailing of the workings of the
selection committee, being instances in point.
The disciplinary committee gave him 28 days to file an appeal,
and the 64-year-old former captain of England decided to fight it
out to the very end.
The argument Illy will put before the four man ICC panel is that
the details disclosed in the book merely reply to Malcolm`s allegations against him, made in a newspaper article.
The panel will be chaired by Judge Desmond Perrett, QC, and will
include former TCCB chairman Frank Chamberlain, National Cricket
Association chairman Frank Elliott, and former Middlesex fast
bowler and presently treasurer of the MCC, John Warr.
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