Hello ICC Members,

I have documented several instances of what looks like discrimination
against Indians by ICC umpires & match referees to Sheils Razdan & Dave
Richardson of ICC over a month ago.

They have responded stating that they have "noted" my observations.

I have sent them a lot of additional information & follow-up mails,
requesting them to confirm what action they are taking in response to the
information I have sent to them.

There is no revert from them in response to my numerous mails requesting
confirmation as to what action they are taking against these adjudicators
who are:

* at best incompetent.
* at worst abusing their on-field authority for improper gratifications
(though I would not like to believe this).

Meantime, the umpires continue to selectively "err" against Indians & match
referees have chosen to ignore visible abuse of on-field umpires by
England's cricketers - the same match referees who hit Indian Sree Santh
with a penalty for what is a miniscule offence in comparison/

As an Indian who has sighted & documented all these instances to ICC & found
no attempt at action from ICC, I am left wondering if one of the below 2 are
a fact (much as I would not like to):

1. ICC umpires & match referees management has been provided improper
gratification to ensure that their umpires err only against Indians (alleged
human errors from ICC umpires seem to be only against Indians during this
Indian tour to England) & their match referees go hard against Indians
(Indian Sree Santh was penalised for a very small offence, while Englishmen
have gone scott-free for visibly larger offences of ICC's code of conduct)
only OR

2. ICC has an unwritten anti-Indian policy.

I request you to use your authority as full members of ICC to ensure that
ICC is not suspected of such foul-play.

Regards,
Chetan Asher.
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Hello Sheila,

Further evidence of ICC & its match referee's anti Indian-ness - Paul
Collingwood, Captain England was seen questioning the on-field umpire's
ethically correct decision to give him out.
ICC has record of Indian Cricketers penalised for smaller arguments with
umpires on grounds of
- Showing Dissent to an umpire's decision
- Bringing the game to disrepute

However almost 24 hours after WHITE Collingwood has misbehaved on the field
of play, ICC, the match referee - nobody has said anything about what action
will be taken against Paul Collingwood.

Was Malcolm Speed serious when he said ICC does not have discriminatory
practices ?

Regards,
Chetan.
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Hello Sheila,

I have sent below mails to enquiry@..., but have no revert in almost 2
weeks.

On the off-chance that the ICC officer who is responsible to manage that
email account is on vacation, I am re-directing this mail to your personal
ID.

We Indians are really concerned anout the below 2 kind of activities from
your match referees & umpires:

1. Match Referees' eagerness to penalise Indian cricketers for smaller
offences than the world has seen Australia / WI / SA cricketers getting away
with. This looks like discrimination against Indians.
2. Near 100 % hit-rate of "human errors" of your umpires going against India
during critical phases
of major international matches.

Please advise what ICC is going to do about this.

For starters, we would expect formal disciplinary action (not just a tap on
the knuckles) against match referees who have:

1) Penalised Indians inconsistent with ICC practices.
2) Not penalised Non-Indians as required to as per ICC's code of conduct
rules which were applied to Indians.

In case you require any formal action from the Indian public against ICC and
/ or its sponsors before ICC will be seing
a) treating Indians fairly &
b) ensuring that its staff do not misuse their authority to give vent to
their personal hatred of India,

please let us know what action would be required & we will oblige.

Regards,
Chetan Asher.
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Hello ICC,

I have no response from you to any of the mails below, including the last
one dated 13th August.

In case you are looking for evidence of double-standards against Indians
from your staff,
here are URL's clearly documenting accurate occurances.

1. http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/13/stories/2006061307111800.htm
2. http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2003/dec/09flash.htm

A request from an Indian to all my Indian friends who are copied here -

Some of you are advocates / know advocates.
In case there is no visible action from ICC against their staff who have
discriminated against Indians, please start exploring the possibility of
filing a public interest litigation in an Indian High Court to -

a) Restrict Indian Passport holders from travelling abroad to participate in
any ICC-managed events.
b) Ensure that corporates doing business in India are not allowed to fund
ICC in any way.
(Including, but not limited to payment for TV Rights, advertising during
ICC-managed events et al)

We should also look at filing a PIL against BCCI and pray for a court order
to dismiss all BCCI's office bearers who have not fulfilled their basic
ethical responsibility - "ensure fair treatment to Indians by ICC".

Chetan Asher.
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Sheila,

We are not looking for ICC to just "note" our views - In case this
discriminatory misbehaviour of your umpires & match referees is not on ICC
orders, we expect public action against them.

I see no reason why somebody who has abused his position for non-cricketing
reasons should be given the benefit of quietly moving out. He should be
questioned / penalised in keeping with ICC standards set by public penalties
against Indian / Pakistani players.

Please let us Indians know what action ICC has intends to take against those
of their paid staff members (Umpires & Match Referees) who have been found
blatantly abusing their authority to discriminate against Indians /
Pakistanis.

Clarifying for ICC -

Discrimination is

a) application of a law against Indian offenders when the same Law is not
applied against an offender from another country.

b) Making consistent allegedly human errors that only go against Indians on
the field of play.
Human errors from your umpires would be treated as human errors & not
commented upon if the
impact of such errors evens out over a period of time.
What we Indians have been observing over the last few years is that
almost as a rule, if
an ICC umpire can err against India at a match-defining moment, he
will err.
The near 100% success-rate with which umpires manage to ensure that
only India suffers
from their "human errors" leaves us reasonably certain that those were
not human errors.

All my Indian Friends,

Please support my request to ICC for public action against their staff who
misuse their authority
to discriminate against Indians.

Start by sending emails to ICC whom I have addressed this mail to. Also
spread the word among
your contacts to support our "Be Fair to Indians" demand.

Regards,
Chetan Asher.
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>From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
>To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
>Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:04:17 +0400
>
>Dear Chetan
>
>Thank you for your email. Your comments are duly noted.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Sheila R. Razdan
>Administration Officer - Media & Communications
>International Cricket Council
>TEL: +971 4 3688315
>FAX: +971 4 3688080
>MOB: +971 50 636 1734
>
>Al Thuraya Tower 1.
>Dubai Media City.
>P. O .Box - 500070.
>Dubai - U.A.E.
>Email: sheila.razdan@...
>www.icc-cricket.com
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
>Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:11 PM
>To: Enquiry
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>Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>
>David,
>
>Ian Howell continues to play for England in this test match. Paul
>Collingwood of England was out plumb LBW to such an extent that if that
>cannot be given out, the LBW law should be scrapped.
>
>Howell has abused his authority to give Collingwood 2nd batting
>yesterday.
>Subsequently he has
>today given Wasim Jaffer of India out LBW again when the ball was
>missing the top of the stumps by at least 6 inches. The ball had hit
>Jaffer way over the Knee roll.
>
>In case we do not see you coming out publicly against 1. Mr Madugalle
>your match referee who was at berst lethargic on his paid job -
>Hooliganly Englishmen have not been penalised for behaviour that is
>blatantly not in keeping with the spirit of cricket AND 2. Ian Howell
>who seems to be the star of the English side.
>
>All my Indian Friends -
>
>We have not seen ICC even attempting to take any action against their
>paid staff who are abusing their authority to show Indians inferior to
>than what they actually are.
>
>Allegedly neutral umpire, Ian Howell is doing his best to win the Oval
>Test for England. He has till date made 5 errors at the Oval, all
>favouring England. I do not believe these are human errors.
>
>Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle has chosen to take action against an
>Indian for "bringing the game to disrepute", but is not seen levying the
>same charge on Englishmen whose behaviour on the field of play was
>visibly worse.
>
>I appeal to all of you, stop patronising products of any corporate that
>sponsors ICC events.
>I see no reason why we Indians should do anything that results in money
>for an organisation that keeps discriminating against Indians.
>
>Please pass on this request to all Indian cricket lovers that you know.
>
>Hindu,
>
>I would appreciate if you could publish this appeal on behalf of an
>Indian who is pained by ICC's consistent discrimination against Indians
>& BCCI's unwillingness / inability to take action against ICC.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>Even as we are discussing the blatant discrimination against Indians by
>your staff, Ian Howe has continued his brilliant performance for
>England.
>
>Sourav Ganguly was not out for everyone except Ian Howe.
>To compensate one human error favouring a bowler, Howe declared James
>Anderson, an Englishman NOT OUT when he was out to the whole world.
>
>I repeat something I have stated earlier - Indians may be expected to
>suffer the odd human error from umpires. However, genuine human errors
>over a period of time level out.
>
>I do not see any level out & the volume of errors against Indian
>cricketers from your umpires as well as match referees only continues to
>grow.
>
>BCCI -
>
>I have no revert for action against ICC staff who are misusing thier
>position to ensure that Indians appear inferior to "Select" teams, not
>even a will reply in ... days.
>
>What is worse, his staff have continued their "Hit India" ways with an
>unreasonably large volume of one-sided "human errors" (as they would
>like Indians to believe, though knowing otherwise).
>The paid match referee remembers cricketing behaviour when Sree Santh of
>India can be blamed.
>Cricketing decorum is not broken when
>Matt Prior the entire English slip cordon are obviously saints, Jelly
>Beans which were meant to disturb the equilibrium of Indian batsmen grew
>on the cricket pitch.
>There was no visible dissent in Englishmen sending a message back to
>Simon Tauffel basis which he asked for a TV replay & reversed what I
>consider the only genuine human error in this series, allowing KP to
>continue batting (I wonder if the match referee would have gone to sleep
>the way he did if KP was replaced with Sachin / Ganguly).
>
>Leaves me thinking that
>
>a) ICC are suffering Indians only for our money.
>b) Umpires & match referees have probably been ordered to pitch in
>against
> "bloody brown Indians" if Indians start playing well enough to beat
>"select teams".
> Remember - Bowden at Bangalore, he single-handedly won the test
>match for an ICC
> favoured Australia, 4 "human errors" all against India.
> Only Rahul Dravid of India was "unfortunate" to be declared out
>twice at Durban & SA won the
> test match.
> During the current series, there have been 4 / 5 alleged human
>errors from ICC's umpires.
> No prizes for guessing - all batsmen "unfortunate" to be declared
>out are Indians. All
> batsmen "Fortunate" to survive close decisions are Englishmen.
>
>After all, Bloody Brown Indians should not be seen better than even
>incompetent "select" teams.
>
>ICC is obviously treating your refusal to pick a public fight with them
>in response to this kind of anti-Indian discriminatory behaviour from
>their staff as a weakness they can exploit to loot Indians AND show us
>as gutless fools.
>
>Remember - ICC's track record -
>Sri Lanka suffered a lot of human errors & harrasment from ICC's umpires
>till Arjuna Ranatunga brought in a couple of lawyers when the
>Australians tried to mis-use their umpires to get rid of Murali. Once
>Sri Lanka picked a fight, Murali was suddenly fine.
>Similarly - Shoaib Akhtar's bouncer was a faulty action till PCB
>produced TV replays proving that his action was identical to Brett Lee
>of Australia.
>Once this was proved, the law governing bowling action was rectified.
>Virender Sehwag of India taking 2 / 3 steps in the general direction of
>an Umpire was considered "threatening" & he was awarded a 1 testmatch
>ban.
>Please remind us of any action taken by ICC's allegedly neutral match
>referee against Brian Charles Lara of WI who clearly walked upto the
>umpire, abusing him & snatched the ball from him.
>Threat & dissent were both visible to all normal human beings, but
>remind us of any action taken by ICC against Lara.
>
>If you have any sense of self-respect left you should resign your ICC
>membership on grounds of discrimination & mistreatment of Indian
>participants by ICC staff.
>
>Do not spoil India's name & image just for some money that you will be
>able to control as an ICC member.
>
>In fact, there is so much love for Cricket in India that if you resign
>your ICC membership & get into managing domestic cricket, you will
>probably have all the money you want to control from Domestic cricket
>alone.
>
>Also - we Indian cricket lovers would respect you more for standing-up
>for India & Indians rather than taking visibly discriminatory treatment
>against Indians by ICC lying down.
>
>Thanks in advance for being Indian.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>I have sent the below mails to your attention on 8th & 9th August.
>Would appreciate a revert on these.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher
>Indian Cricket Lover.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>I have no response from you to the below mail.
>
>What is worse - your umpires continue to help England. The same man has
>already given 2 Indians out "erraneously" - Dinesh Karthik & Saurav
>Ganguly's wickets were gifted to incompetent English bowlers by ICC's
>umpires.
>
>That makes a count of 5 human errors from your umpires against India in
>this series alone.
>
>The only error against England invited an argument from the English
>dressing room, in response to which the umpire promptly called for a TV
>replay & reversed that error.
>
>We are yet to hear of the match referee taking any action against the
>Englishmen for what they did.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>Below examples that come to mind off the cuff:
>
>1. Virender Sehwag of India was levied a 1 test match ban when he took 3
>/ 4 steps in the general direction of the umpire a few years ago, the
>allegation
>- he is threatening the umpire.
>BCCI's appeal for review was also turned down, clearly laying a
>standard.
>Same standard was not followed in a recent incident - I am unable to
>find any action by ICC's umpires / match referees against Brian Lara
>when WI appealed for Dhoni's wicket recently & the umpires gave Dhoni 6
>! Lara visibly walked upto the umpires in rage, abused them & snatched
>the ball from their hand.
>2. I recollect several Indian fielders charged with violation of varios
>ICC laws when they celebrated the fall of a wicket, but am unable to
>find any record of action taken against Glen McGrath for the abuse &
>visible pointing to the dressing room he did on the field of play after
>getting Sachin's wicket a few years ago.
>3. I recollect a whole host of Indian cricketers penalised for showing
>dissent - Sehwag at Bangalore for pointing to his bat when he had
>actually nicked the ball & Bowden gave him out LBW, Harbhajan in one of
>the Sharjah series because somebody saw a look of dissent in his eyes !
>the list could go on
>
>I am unable to find anything action against
>a) Lara for walking upto the on-field umpires in visible anger &
>snatching the ball from the umpire
>b) Kevin Peterson & the English cricket management in the recent
>incident when Simon Tauffel gave Kevin out caught behind & a message
>came in from the english dressing room basis which Simon Tauffel asked
>for a replay & revised his decision.
>c) Fleming (I think) from Australia who actually stamped his feet on the
>ground like a kid throwing a tantrum when he appealed for LBW against
>Sachin & the umpire ruled Sachin Not out. This was during the same
>tournament where Harbhajan Singh of India was accused for dissent for
>looking at the umpire ! In fact, during the post-match conference, the
>match referee had cheekily asked media reporters "what dissent" when
>they asked him what action he intended to take against Fleming for
>showing dissent.
>d) The guilty Englishmen for Visible harrasment of Indian batsmen
>through- Matt Prior's lip service & Jelly beans on the field of play
>with a view to harrassing the Indian Batsmen, all discussed very widely
>in the media.
>e) The unfair use of Squash balls / graphite bats by Australian batsmen
>to win World Cup finals. I know this is not disallowed explicitly.
>However, given the fact that this kind of tactics are not in keeping
>with the spirit of cricket, ICC should have taken action against the
>offenders under Clause
>C1 "Conduct Contrary to the Spirit of the Game", instead of allowing the
>beneficiaries to claim a World Cup title.
>f) Keppler Wessels of SA who actually hit Kapil Dev of India with his
>bat on the field of play. The match referee openly refused to take any
>action against the offender since the SACB was unable to provide a
>replay tapes (as reported in the media).
>
>What we have sighted is a sledge-hammer when cricketers of Indian /
>Pakistani origin are at fault to the extent of blatantly re-defining
>technicalities - Sachin Tendulkar of India was accused of ball-tampering
>when all he had done was clean the ball, even after the ball showed no
>evidence of being tampered with on one of India's tours of SA.
>
>AND Negligible / no action when cricketers from other teams are
>involved.
>
>There might be more than meets the eye in incidents where match referees
>have chosen to go soft, but there is no public explaination along the
>lines.
>This leaves us to draw our own conclusions. My assumption of
>discrimination is based on the fact that all cricketers on whom match
>referees have gone soft are either white OR WI. All cricketers hit hard
>by ICC match referees are Indians / Pakistanis.
>
>When this is added to the below observations -
>
>1. 4 human errors from Billy Bowden in an India Vs Australia test match
>at Bangalore all favouring Australia & Australia won that match.
>2. Rahul Dravid of India declared incorrectly out twice at Durban & SA
>won the test match to level the series.
>3. Rahul Dravid of India again declared incorrectly out at Lord's on the
>4th day..fortunately for India, rain intervened on the 5th day when
>England had all but won the test match.
>4. Sachin Tendulkar & Saurav Ganguly of India given out incorrectly in
>the 2nd test match between India & England, which did not matter in the
>overall result thanks to Zaheer Khan's exceptional bowling in the
>English 2nd innings.
>
>Across a more than 2 year window, I am unable to locate the even-out in
>terms of match-defining human errors from umpires that resulted in
>victories for India against Australia / SA / England.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------------------------------------
> >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:31:29 +0400
> >
> >Dear Chetan
> >
> >I refer to your email which has been referred to me for my attention
> >and reply.
> >
> >All decisions made by the umpires and referees are independently
> >assessed and noted. At the conclusion of every match the captains from
> >both teams have the opportunity to report on the match officials. I
> >also regularly meet with the captains of all teams. One of the matters
> >discussed is the standard of officiating. Should any allegations of
> >bias be reported they will be investigated and dealt with.
> >
> >You are welcome to submit any examples of alleged bias.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >David Richardson
> >General Manager - Cricket
> >
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >Sheila R. Razdan
> >Administration Officer - Media & Communications International Cricket
> >Council
> >TEL: +971 4 3688315
> >FAX: +971 4 3688080
> >MOB: +971 50 636 1734
> >
> >Al Thuraya Tower 1.
> >Dubai Media City.
> >P. O .Box - 500070.
> >Dubai - U.A.E.
> >Email: sheila.razdan@...
> >www.icc-cricket.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:06 PM
> >To: icc-feedback@...
> >Subject: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >
> >Name: Chetan Asher
> >Email address: asherca@...
> >Subject: Umpiring & Match Refereeing
> >
> >Comments:
> >Hello,
> >
> >
> >I would appreciate if you can let me have the email address of the ICC
> >officer who is supposed to manage the performance of Umpires & Match
> >Referees.
> >
> >
> >Thanks in advance & best regards,
> >Chetan A Asher,
> >Chennai - India.
> >
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