BCCI will take up Ganguly ban issue

THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The cricket board on Friday made it clear that it had not given up on the issue of the six-match ban imposed on Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and would continue to pursue the matter with the International Cricket Council.

“We have written to the ICC that the six-match ban is too much. We are taking this up with the ICC,” Mahendra told reporters after BCCI's two-day working committee meeting here.

Ganguly was banned for six One-Day Internationals by ICC match referee Chris Broad after the Indian captain was found guilty for his side's slow over rate during the one-day series against Pakistan.

Ganguly, whose appeal against the ban was later turned down by ICC appeals commissioner Tim Castle, has already missed two matches - fifth and sixth one-dayer against Pakistan in April. If the ban stays, he would miss the Tri-Nation Series in Sri Lanka in August where West Indies is the third team.