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    "editor1": "<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Manchester, Aug 6 (IANS\/RAY) Farokh Engineer, former Indian wicket-keeper who played nine seasons for Lancashire (in which county Manchester is located), blamed the Internationl Cricket Council (ICC) and its match referee David Boon for the lingering Jadeja-Anderson controversy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Engineer, who still lives in this area, said, &quot;I blame David Boon and the ICC&quot; for allowing the Jadeja-Anderson spat to fester.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">The controversy pertains to the touring Indian cricket squad charging England fast bowler James Anderson with pushing Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja in breach of the ICC&#39;s code of conduct and a judicial commissioner appointed by the world body thereafter finding him not guilty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">On Anderson, Engineer told the Guardian newspaper: &quot;He&#39;s a great bowler, a great lad and of course a fellow Lancastrian.&quot; He, however, added: &quot;I must stress that I don&#39;t know what happened at Trent Bridge (scene of the alleged clash between Anderson and Jadeja).&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">He went on to say: &quot;M.S. Dhoni says he saw Jimmy (Anderson) push Jadeja and if that&#39;s the case, Jimmy&#39;s been naughty. It&#39;s ridiculous that it has been dragged on for so long.&quot;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">&quot;If I&#39;d been the match referee - and I used to be one - I&#39;d have had Jimmy and Jadeja sort it out between them and, if Jimmy was at fault, I&#39;d have asked him to apologise. It should have been sorted out in five minutes.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">The fact is the England &amp; Wales Cricket Board (ECB) was prepared to discuss an apology from Anderson with Indian team manager Sunil Dev on the first morning of the second Test at Lord&#39;s last month to close the matter. But Dhoni shot this down and insisted on taking the matter to an ICC judicial commissioner, where the Indians lost their claim.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">It was pointed out to both Dev and BCCI&#39;s interim president Shivlal Yadav that the Indian side was likely to lose the case, as there was apparently no independent evidence to support Dhoni&#39;s allegation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">It was also conveyed to them that, if anything, there were signed depositions from third party witnesses contradicting Dhoni&#39;s assertion. But such warning fell on deaf ears as Dhoni refused to budge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">The rebuff from the ICC&#39;s judicial commissioner does not seem to have taught the BCCI a lesson. It is now harping on the absence of a video evidence to substantiate the Indian side&#39;s claim.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Critics say Dhoni ought to have made certain video proof existed before hurtling headlong into a collision, which had ended in embarrassment for India, with Anderson being declared &quot;not guilty of breaching the ICC code of conduct&quot;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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