Virtually blaming India for the contract dispute, new International Cricket Council president Ehsan Mani says the world body will not allow a repeat of such controversies.
Mani, who took over from Australia's Malcolm Gray on Thursday for a two-year term, said every country had agreed to the contract signed with the Global Cricket Corporation, for the rights of all ICC events till 2007.
"What happened was that ICC entered into contracts with GCC which was agreed to by all. Problem arose when Indian players objected to it," the 58-year-old Mani told PTI in London on Friday.
Asserting that the ICC will have to find a solution to the problem and is working "very hard to resolve it", he said, "We have to make sure that each and every member is in agreement of their obligations -- that is the only way forward."
Mani, who was Pakistan's permanent representative at the ICC from 1989 to 1996, says it was not a mistake selling the rights of the players to the GCC, insisting that everyone including the Board of Control for Cricket in India, had agreed to it.
He also said the ICC would look into the whole spectrum of cricket that is played today.
"We need to address the issue of volume of cricket as there are complaints, particularly from countries like India, that too much cricket is being played."
