DURHAM chief executive David Harker has called on the ECB to throw Yorkshire out of the Twenty20 Cup.
The quarter-final between Durham and Yorkshire did not start at Chester-le-Street last night after the ECB ordered the match to be postponed due to the apparent ineligibility of 17-year-old Yorkshire spinner Azeem Rafiq for a group match against Nottinghamshire last month in which he played.
The ECB will consider what action to take at a meeting on Thursday, 3pm, at Old Trafford, with Glamorgan expressing their interest in taking Yorkshire's place should they be thrown out.
Click here to read Stewart Regan's response.Durham insist they should advance to the finals at the Rose Bowl on July 26, when the semi-finals and the final will be played.
"To be honest the only fair outcome now is that we go to the finals and if it's a result of Yorkshire being kicked out then so be it," Harker said.
He believes any re-arranged game against Yorkshire would hamper Durham's chances of success due to their busy fixture schedule.
"Any other solution which doesn't have Durham automatically proceeding to the finals day is going to further disadvantage us and that can't be right."
Glamorgan chairman Paul Russell has revealed that his club are ready to take Yorkshire's place if the Tykes are thrown out for fielding an ineligible player.
Glamorgan finished third in the Midlands/Wales/West League but did not progress because the other two third-placed teams, Yorkshire and Kent, had more points.
Russell now hopes the ECB will reinstate Glamorgan when an ECB panel headed by an independent QC meets on Thursday.
"There must be a slim chance that we will get back into the tournament," he said.
"If Yorkshire are thrown out then Glamorgan would seize the chance (to replace them) with all the energy we could muster."
Russell believes that although it was "a terrible shame" the match was postponed, the ECB made the right decision.
"It must have been an enormously hard decision," he added.
"But if the game had been played, the consequences could have been completely disastrous."
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