In a major contentious issue of holding ICC T20 World Cup 2021 I India, BCCI and ICC are at loggerheads and now the International body threatening Indian cricket body of shifting event from India if Tax issue are is not solved. This was reported by ESPNCricinfo.
ESPNcricinfo after accessing the emails between two bodies reported that, the ICC told the BCCI it was to provide an “unconditional confirmation” by May 18 this year that a solution had been found to a longstanding issue in coordination with the Indian government. Instead the BCCI wants the deadline extended at least until June 30, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as reason for invoking the force majeure clause in the agreement. The ICC has rejected the request.
“In light of the BCCI’s notification of force majeure, we would highlight the obligation on the BCCI… of the Host Agreement and that IBC (ICC Business Corporation) is entitled to terminate the agreement with immediate effect at any time from 18 May 2020,” Jonathan Hall, the ICC’s general counsel, wrote to the BCCI on April 29.
“The BCCI has clearly had many years to arrange the tax solution… which is why the agreement asks for it to be provided ….no later than 18 (eighteen) months prior…. and why the BCCI was required to provide it by 31 December 2019. In such circumstances IBC is not prepared to agree to the requested extension to June 30, 2020 or 30 days after the lockdown is lifted whichever is later.
“In the meantime, all of IBC’s rights are reserved in full including the right to challenge whether or not a valid force majeure exists.”