Rubbing Salt On Wounds? After Winning The Compensation Case, BCCI To Fork Out Rs 15 Crore Legal Fees From Pakistan

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has written a letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) seeking expenses of the compensation case that the BCCI won previous month against the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), reports Mumbai Mirror.

In a recent letter to the ICC’s Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC), BCCI has asked for its legal expenses of Rs 15 crore to be paid by the Pakistani board.

The DRC, headed by English barrister Michael J Beloff, had Dr Anabelle Bennet and Jan Paulsson as members.

The three-member Beloff panel quashed the PCB’s claim of an estimated Rs 447 crore from the BCCI for not honouring a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that had mandated a bilateral series between the two neighbours. The countries have only faced each other in multilateral tournaments and have not played a bilateral match since January 2013.

A party can seek legal expenses in a case, and the DRC can determine that, as per the terms and conditions of ICC’s dispute resolution policy. A Dubai-based law firm Herbert Smith Freehills was hired by BCCI along with a British Lawyer Ian Mills QC to represent them in the case.

The BCCI also called former union minister Salman Khurshid, former BCCI employees Sundar Raman and Ratnakar Shetty along with former BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel as its witnesses. The hearing in the matter took place in the first week of October in Dubai.

The matter is also likely to come up at an Asian Cricket Council meeting in Dhaka on 13 December.