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UCB deny begging-bowl rumours
Wisden CricInfo staff - November 26, 2001

CENTURION, South Africa (Reuters)
The United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB) has denied media reports that chief executive Gerald Majola asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) for financial compensation, after India threatened to boycott the third Test if match referee Mike Denness was not removed.

"He never asked the ICC for any money; he told them how much the UCB stood to lose if the match did not go ahead," Bronwyn Wilkinson, UCB communications director said.

"What Gerald meant was that if anybody could have told him where he would find the R40 million that the UCB stood to lose, he would have been in a position to look at the situation differently."

UCB president Percy Sonn told reporters: "We may have lost R40 million if the Test didn't go ahead but it is bullshit that Gerald (Majola) would have asked for it from the ICC.

"That statement exceeds even the bounds of the most stupid person."

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