{"id":140656,"date":"2025-09-16T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140656\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:26:07","slug":"icc-officially-rejects-pcb-demand-to-remove-match-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140656\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC officially rejects PCB demand to remove match referee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> ASIA CUP 2025 <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"ICC has sent a formal response to PCB's demand\" title=\"ICC has sent a formal response to PCB's demand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/icc-has-sent-a-formal-response.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>ICC has sent a formal response to PCB&#8217;s demand \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> The ICC has officially rejected PCB&#8217;s demand to replace match referee Andy Pycroft at the ongoing Asia Cup. The possible rejection, which Cricbuzz had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricbuzz.com\/cricket-news\/135610\/icc-all-set-to-reject-pcb-demand-to-replace-match-referee-pycroft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported about<\/a>, had been conveyed to the PCB last night. This is ICC&#8217;s formal response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricbuzz.com\/cricket-news\/135604\/pcb-demands-removal-of-match-referee-pycroft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PCB&#8217;s demand<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> PCB was said to be miffed with Pycroft&#8217;s role in asking the Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha to avoid shaking hands with the Indian captain at the toss. However, the ICC has reasoned it out saying the ACC officials on the ground are understood to have told Pycroft that there will not be any handshake at the toss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> The ICC letter cleared the air and refuted Pakistan&#8217;s belief that the match referee was acting on behalf of the Indian team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> More to follow&#8230; <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASIA CUP 2025 ICC has sent a formal response to PCB&#8217;s demand \u00a9 Getty The ICC has officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-140656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}