ICC Board meeting on Wednesday and Thursday
Discussions to include Zimbabwe and shape of Future Tours Programme beyond May 2012
The ICC Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) will start off a series of meetings for world cricket’s leading administrators when it begins its discussions at The Westin Hotel, Dubai on Sunday 29 June.
The two-day CEC meeting will make decisions on a range of matters relating to the playing of cricket as well as recommendations on the business of cricket for consideration – and adoption or otherwise – by the ICC Board, which will meet over two days on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 July.
The week will conclude with the ICC’s Annual Conference on 4 July, followed by a Members’ Forum.
Media opportunities during the week, all at The Westin Hotel, will be as follows:
· 2 July – Media conference following the first day’s ICC Board discussions. This is a provisional arrangement and is dependent on the Board reaching a conclusion in relation to its discussions on Zimbabwe
· 3 July – Media conference following the conclusion of the Board meeting
· 4 July – Media conference with the new ICC President David Morgan and Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat. This will take place at 1330 in the Serdaal 2 room
The hotel is located on Al Sufouh Road near the Dubai International Marine Club and overlooking The Palm Jumeirah (telephone: +971 4 399 4141)
The main agenda items for the week of meetings include:
Zimbabwe
The worsening situation within the country has prompted the ICC President, Ray Mali, to place the issue on the agenda at the ICC Board meeting.
Future Tours Programme post-2012
The current FTP concludes in May 2012.
The CEC and the ICC Board will begin the process of considering the future landscape of the game at international level.
This follows the ICC Cricket Committee’s discussions on the subject at its meeting in Dubai in May. That gathering made the following recommendations and observations which will be considered during the coming week:
· All three formats of international cricket should be protected and promoted with Test cricket identified as the pinnacle of the sport
· The ‘icon’ Test series must be protected
· All of the leading Members should continue to have the right to host a minimum number of matches in all three formats against each other within a pre-determined timeframe
· ICC should look at ways of taking greater central ‘ownership’ of international cricket outside its events or at least providing for more consistency in marketing/promotion
· The concept of a Test Championship and/or play-off should be explored further
Code of Conduct Levels 3 and 4 – Amendment to disciplinary process
The Executive Board will be asked to consider a proposal that the more serious offences under the ICC Code of Conduct should be heard by a suitably qualified lawyer rather than an Emirates Elite Panel ICC Match Referee.
A revised disciplinary process will be considered which would also involve the referee being able to report a Level 3 or Level 4 breach (at the moment only umpires can report breaches of the code) and that such cases would then be heard by a suitably qualified lawyer, appointed as and when necessary from the list of ICC Appeals Commissioners.
Marlon Samuels
In May, West Indies player Marlon Samuels was banned for two years by a West Indies Cricket Board Disciplinary Committee.
The player was found guilty of offence C 4 (ix) of the ICC Code of Conduct, namely that he “Received any money, benefit or other reward (whether financial or otherwise) which could bring him or the game of cricket into disrepute.”
The penalty for being found guilty of this offence is a minimum two-year ban.
An Official Enquiry made up of Mr Michael Beloff QC, the Chairman of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, and two other ICC Code of Conduct Commissioners, has reviewed the WICB Disciplinary Committee finding to ascertain whether the disciplinary process and the punishment imposed were in keeping with the ICC regulations and it will make any recommendation necessary to the ICC Board meeting.
Playing conditions for the ICC Champions Trophy 2008 (CT) and ICC World Twenty20 (WT20) 2009.
The CEC will review the draft playing conditions and approve them as appropriate. Both sets include a provision for a one-over eliminator to replace a bowl-out in the event of a tie.
The eliminator will be applicable in the semi-finals and the final in the CT and all matches in the WT20.
The loss of two wickets by the batting side ends its innings. If the sides finish tied then the line-up that has hit the most sixes in both its innings and the one-over eliminator is declared the winner. If the sides are still tied at that point then they will be separated by determining which of them scored the most boundaries – fours and sixes – in both its innings and the eliminator.
Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee
The ICC Board will be asked to select a replacement for ICC Cricket Committee Chairman Sunil Gavaskar, who relinquished the post in May after eight years.
ICC Members were asked to nominate potential candidates and two names have been put forward: Majid Khan, the former Pakistan captain, and ex-West Indies captain Clive Lloyd.
The ICC Board consists of the Chairman or President from each of the ten Full Members plus three Associate Member representatives. Also present at ICC Board meetings is the ICC President, who chairs proceedings, the ICC Chief Executive Officer and the ICC President-Elect.
Ray Mali ICC President
David Richardson ICC acting Chief Executive Officer
David Morgan OBE President-Elect
Creagh O’Connor Australia
Major General Sina Ibn Jamali Bangladesh
Giles Clarke England
Sharad Pawar India
Dr Justin Vaughan (alternate for Sir John Anderson KBE) New Zealand
Dr Nasim Ashraf Pakistan
Arjuna Ranatunga Sri Lanka
Norman Arendse South Africa
Dr Julian Hunte OBE West Indies
Peter Chingoka Zimbabwe
Associate Members (3)
To be nominated and confirmed at the Associate members’ meeting on 1 July
The CEC comprises the Chief Executives of the 10 Test-playing Members and three representatives from ICC Associate Members. It is chaired by the ICC’s Chief Executive Officer. The ICC President and the Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee will be in attendance although the latter post is currently vacant.
Ray Mali ICC President
David Richardson ICC acting Chief Executive Officer
James Sutherland Australia
Nizam Uddin Chowdhury Bangladesh
David Collier England
Niranjan Shah India
Dr Justin Vaughan New Zealand
Shafqat Naghmi Pakistan
Gerald Majola South Africa
Duleep Mendis Sri Lanka
Dr Donald Peters West Indies
Wilfred Mukondiwa (alternate for Ozias Bvute) Zimbabwe
Associate Members (3)
John Cribbin Hong Kong
Warren Deutrom Ireland
Laurie Pieters Namibia
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