The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has dubbed as "extreme" the International Cricket Council's decision to drop umpire Steve Bucknor following the Sydney Test controversy.
The ICC dropped Jamaican Bucknor for the third Test in Perth following pressure from the Indian board after umpiring errors in the second Test, which Australia won by 122 runs to go 2-0 up in the series.
"On the surface, the ICC's reaction in this particular instance seems to be extreme," West Indies board president Julian Hunte said in a letter to ICC president Ray Mali and published in the board's web site www.windiescricket.com.
"A dangerous precedent may have been set by the ICC."
The ICC seemed to be adopting double standards after refusing to act on a formal protest by the West Indies against poor umpiring on their 2005 Australia tour, he said.