Kamal resigns as ICC president

Dhaka - Mustafa Kamal resigned as president of the International Cricket Council on Wednesday, saying he had been prevented from presenting the Cricket World Cup trophy after claiming one of the matches was fixed.

Kamal, a Bangladeshi national, told reporters he had been ordered to apologise for the incendiary claim that his country's World Cup quarter-final defeat to India was "pre-arranged".

He said after the match last month that there was "no quality in the umpiring", casting a shadow over an otherwise successful tournament and earning a sharp rebuke from ICC chief executive David Richardson.