ICC Trophy Technical Committee confirms no change to Namibia v Canada result

The ICC Trophy Technical Committee today confirmed that there would be no change to the result of the ICC Trophy Ireland 2005 match between Namibia and Canada after a hearing to review a complaint from the Namibia team.

The Namibia team appealed to the Technical Committee with a query relating to the accuracy of the scoring of the match, specifically in relation to the 45th over of the Namibia innings.

After carefully considering the merits of the appeal the Technical Committee determined that there would be no change to the result of the match.

"The Trophy Technical Committee may not override the Laws of Cricket," said the decision.

"Insofar as the umpires' decision regarding the accuracy of scores took place within the timeframe of the match and is therefore subject to the umpires' jurisdiction under the Laws of Cricket, the Trophy Technical Committee has no jurisdiction to overturn an umpire's decision regarding the accuracy of the scores."

The Technical Committee considered verbal evidence from Namibia team manager Malcolm Jarvis, Namibia Cricket Board Chairman Francois Erasmus, match umpires Billy Doctrove and Trevor Henry and the scorers.

The composition of the ICC Trophy Technical Committee is as follows:

Warren Deutrom (Chairman - ICC Cricket Events Manager)
Chris Nockels (IDI Representative - ICC Event Co-ordinator)
John Wright (Host Tournament Director)
John Boomer (ICU nominee)
Richard Done (Independent representative - ICC High Performance Manager)
Allan Rutherford (Independent representative - former Captain of Northern Ireland Squad, Commonwealth Games 1998)