da winzada777： Kent are considering taking legal action in their bid to challenge theECB’s decision to award them only four points for the abandoned matchagainst Worcestershire at Kidderminster in July
da heads bet： Cricinfo staff12-Sep-2007Kent are considering taking legal action in their bid to challenge theECB’s decision to award them only four points for the abandoned matchagainst Worcestershire at Kidderminster in July.The Championship match was scheduled for Worcester’s New Road eventhough the ground had been under several feet of water less than afortnight earlier. In the event, there was no play in the Kent match,and Mark Newton, Worcestershire’s chairman, admitted the decision tostage the game was financial.Initially, the ECB ordered the game to be replayed, but that decisionwas overturned by the first-class counties and it was treated as anabandoned match with each side being awarded four points.The ECB then proposed that Kent be awarded five extra points tocompensate them, but the idea was turned down by four counties -Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham and Warwickshire. With Kent now secondfrom bottom, nine points adrift of Warwickshire albeit with a game inhand, the issue is growing in importance all the time.”I am prepared to take it further, and I am planning to speak to theECB soon,” Carl Openheimer, Kent’s chairman told Steve James in TheSunday Telegraph. “When this matter first arose we still had hopesof winning the Championship. Now the situation is very different. ButI don’t want to be seen as whingeing after the event so we will bereviewing our options swiftly.”
