TimesofIndia.com in Dubai: The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) may be very more likely to reject Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) demand for a change of match referee. The response to PCB’s letter addressed to the worldwide cricket physique’s Basic Supervisor, Wasim Khan, is within the works and may very well be despatched anytime now.PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi, who can also be the President of Asian Cricket Council (ACC), needed the fast removing of match referee Andy Pycroft. PCB had alleged that Pycroft requested the captains to not shake fingers on the toss. The handshakes did not occur, each on the toss and after the sport, and there was no dearth of drama since then.It’s reliably understood that Pycroft might nicely have been following the directions from somebody within the ACC, solely as ICC’s job ends after they appoint the officers, in session with the organising physique.“What has ICC obtained to do with it? The function ends when the officers are appointed. Somebody from the ACC had a chat with Pycroft earlier than the sport and what occurred on the toss was a results of the chat. About time PCB chief finds out what that chat was, who did it and why. As a substitute of pointing fingers at ICC to additional gas hearth,” says a supply monitoring developments.TimesofIndia.com reached out to the ICC for a touch upon the event, however there was no response from the worldwide cricket physique. It now stays to be seen what PCB does subsequent after ICC’s response, as they’d threatened to tug out of the event if their demand for Pycroft’s removing isn’t met. With that unlikely to occur, will the Pakistan cricket staff not take part within the the rest of the event, a event organised by a physique chaired by the PCB chief? “All this discuss and posting on social media is nice for the optics and narrative again residence, nevertheless it makes little or no sense. If they’d downside with India not shaking fingers, even that is not obligatory,” provides the supply. India and Pakistan are scheduled to coach on the ICC Academy on September 16, and whereas the time slots are completely different, the 2 sides might be on the identical venue for a while collectively.