ICC STUMPED! Official charged with sexually harassing wife of Asian delegate, ICC tries to hush up the matter?

New Delhi: Days after the paradigm shift in power equations in the topmost echelons of International Cricket Council (ICC), trouble seems to have hit the game’s global governing body. A senior ICC official, attached with council’s high-profile Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU), has been accused of sexually harassing an Asian delegate’s wife last Thursday- the day BCCI’s president-in-exile N Srinivasan took charge as ICC’s first Chairman- in the member’s dining area at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), The Telegraph has reported. The newspaper claims that the ICC, keen to guard its reputation, has ensured the identities of the accused official and the Asian delegate are kept under wraps. The ICC is yet to question the accused or institute an internal probe, the paper says. Reportedly, the accused official and the delegate almost came to blows, and it required the intervention of atleast two senior ICC officials to salvage the situation. The accused, it has been learnt, was forced to issue an “unconditional apology” to the delegate, and even went on to touch the incensed delegate’s feet to pacify him. The ICC is learnt to have persuaded the delegate not to escalate the matter. “It’s not clear what happened first: whether the delegate noticed the act of ‘sexual harassment’ or his wife protested publicly.…what’s clear is that the senior official was caught by his collar and would have been punched by the delegate but for the intervention of some guests who were in the vicinity,” says the paper. “What’s the message being sent out, when a senior official with the anti-corruption and security unit shows such loose morals? Why has he not been suspended pending inquiry? That would have been par for the course,” an ICC source told the paper. Read The Telegraph's report here The incident comes at a time when ICC is battling severe credibility crisis, with its chairman N Srinivasan being listed in the ongoing IPL fixing and betting probe in India. While India's Supreme Court has forced the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) boss to step aside from BCCI top-job pending enquiry, the Tamil Nadu strongman used his immense clout to secure the plum ICC posting.