English cricket ban to stand?

Press, 16 August 1982, Page 36

English cricket ban to stand?

NZPA London The Test and County Cricket Board - (T.C.C.8.) refused yesterday to comment on newspaper reports that England's 15 cricketing rebels who toured South Africa last March have failed to get a reduction in their three-year ban from test cricket. Several British papers reported yesterday that Graham Gooch’s team had failed in their fight to get the ban reduced by a year. “It is understood that the executive committee of the T.C.C.B. was in favour of keeping the complete ban when it held a special inves-

tigation." the “Daily Mail" said. A T.C.C.B. spokesman. Mr Peter Lush, said the executive committee of the board was preparing a report which would be sent to the counties at the beginning of next week. "It will be discussed at length at Friday's special board meeting, but the contents of it are and will remain entirely confidential," Lush said.' Meanwhile, Gooch said that until he had heard officially from the board there was nothing he could say. “I'm not sure if there will be an action in the courts," he said. “To talk of one is premature.”