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International Cricket Council

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Salman Khurshid

Asian Cricket Council

As if insult was not enough, there is humiliation in store for the(PCB). The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has dashed off a letter seekingexpenses of the compensation case the PCB lost to the BCCI last month.Mirror has learnt that the BCCI has written recently to the Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC) of the(ICC) asking for its legal expenses of about Rs 15 crore be paid by the PCB. The DRC was headed by English barrister Michael J Beloff QC, and had Dr Annabelle Bennett and Jan Paulsson as members.In its judgment on November 18, the three-member Beloff panel quashed the PCB claim of Rs 447 crore compensation from the BCCI for not honouring an MoU which had mandated bilateral series between the countries. India andhave only been engaged in multilateral tournaments and have not played a bilateral match since January 2013.As per the terms and reference of ICC’s dispute resolution, a party can seek legal expenses in a case and the DRC can determine on that. The BCCI had engaged a Dubai-based law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and also called a British Lawyer Ian Mills QC to fight its case. BCCI’s own legal firm, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, was also active in the case. It had also called former union minister, former BCCI employees Ratnakar Shetty and Sundar Raman, and former BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel as its witnesses. The hearing had taken place in the first week of October in Dubai.BCCI sources have confirmed that the letter has been dispatched to the DRC. Meanwhile, the matter is likely to also come up at anmeeting in Dhaka on December 13.