Emirates Cricket Board lodges ICC Trophy protest

"Those who have qualified for the World Cup have made it by default. "The UAE could not make it as we were forced to keep our best players out," Abdulrehman Bukhatir, President of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) told Gulf News. Bukhatir's comments came afterÊ the ECB officially lodged a protest to the International Cricket Council (ICC) on the refusal of the Canadian Embassy to grant visas to two of its top players for the ICC Trophy held in Toronto.