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BARODA, India, Sunday (Reuters)

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is looking to introduce specific measures to decide the outcome of matches disrupted by crowd trouble, ICC match referee Mike Procter said on Sunday.

South African Procter, supervising the current one-day series between India and West Indies which has been marred by crowd trouble, said he would send his report to an ICC committee being urgently convened to discuss the problem.

Poor crowd behaviour marred the first three matches and Procter was forced to abandoned the third Rajkot game on Tuesday after three West Indies players were hit by missiles thrown by fans.

The match was awarded to India on the basis of the Duckworth/Lewis method used for rain-affected games.

The ICC said it did not have the authority to remove the international status of such venues, which its Safety and Security Committee would consider "imminently".

"Currently there are no written rules," Procter told reporters on Sunday on the eve of the fifth one-dayer.

"The ICC is also looking into it, if a match is abandoned, who does it. Right now the authority is with the match referee."

The Safety and Security Committee will also discuss who should be given the match in case of crowd interruptions.

Procter defended his abandoning the Rajkot match and refuted some domestic media reports which suggested that the West Indies team management and the match referee had overreacted.

He had said in Rajkot that West Indies captain Carl Hooper was not keen on sending his players on to the field a second time, but on Sunday said it was entirely his decision.

"There have been reports in the press that the West Indies overreacted in Rajkot, we overreacted. I want to make clear that it is not true.

"West Indies did not abandon the game, I did."

Procter said West Indies fast bowler Pedro Collins was twice hit by objects when walking on the boundary line, and Ryan Hinds and Vasbert Drakes were also struck while fielding in the deep.

"It is not over-reaction when you get stones thrown. And bottles filled with sand, they can be a dangerous weapon."

"Every situation is different. One of the top priorities of ICC is the safety and security of the players.

"No one wants the game to be stopped."

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