The International Cricket Council  (ICC) rejected the request of  The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to sever ties with countries from which terrorism emanates, saying the ICC has no role to play in matters like these.

"There was no chance that anything like that would have happened. The ICC chairman made it clear that the decision to ostracize a nation is taken at the government level and ICC had no rule.

A BCCI offcial told PTI, The BCCI knew it all along but still took a chance,"

The BCCI letter did not make a specific reference to Pakistan, which has been accused of harbouring terrorists by India The  matter came up during Saturday's ICC board meeting chaired by chairman Shashank Manohar but not much time was spent on it. The BCCI was represented at the board by acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary.

In the wake of the Pulwama terror attack, in which more than 40 CRPF personnel were killed, the BCCI, in a letter to the ICC, urged the world body and its member nations to sever ties with countries which harbour terror.

The demand of not playing Pakistan in worldcup has been made by some of the biggest names in Indian cricket such as Harbhajan Singh and Sourav Ganguly.