(ATR) The United States of America Cricket Association is keeping mum on how it plans to combat the threat of expulsion from the International Cricket Council.
The ICC reasons that USACA’s failure to unite cricket in the United States and meet conditions that would revoke the provisional suspension in place since June 2015 are means to sever ties with the national association. The suspension is the third such for USACA in the past 12 years.
"Our focus throughout this two year process has been on the unification of the USA cricket community behind USACA to grow and develop the sport," ICC chief executive David Richardson said in a statement released May 1.
"But it has become clear that this is just not possible and, having invested so much time and resources into helping USACA and with little in the way of cooperation from USACA, the ICC Board now felt that the only remaining option was for the ICC Full Council to consider expulsion of USACA as a member of the ICC."
Around the Rings was unable to reach USACA for comment on how it plans to prevent its dismissal.
At the heart of the dispute is the governance structure of USACA that the ICC has attempted to rectify with its reinstatement conditions that included a change in USACA’s constitution. However, the ICC-approved constitution was voted down by USACA on April 11 in favor of USACA-approved statutes consisting of "minor edits".
USACA president Gladstone Dainty sent a letter to the ICC on April 20 seeking for the removal of their provisional suspension. It seems USACA’s pleas have gone unanswered.
"USACA’s refusal to engage in the process, to meet a number of fundamental reinstatement conditions, to provide responses to further requests for information and its apparent failure to put the ICC Board-approved constitution before its members without legitimate excuse undermines the all-important objective of uniting the sport," Richardson said.
The ICC Board will discuss the expulsion of the United States at its meeting this June. The full council will then vote to either remove USACA or extend its current suspension.
Written by Kevin Nutley
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