Task team set up to manage concerns, liaise with embassies and Governments
The ICC Board today held a teleconference to discuss the location for this year’s ICC Champions Trophy, at the end of which it reiterated its decision of 2006 to stage the event in Pakis
tan.In arriving at that position the Board considered various security reports and discussed at length the concerns of some Members and stakeholders as well as the perceptions of Pakistan that may exist in some quarters. Those discussions lasted two-and-a-quarter hours.
In recognizing those concerns and perceptions, the Board agreed they needed to be managed going forward, both before and during the tournament.
In order to do this, the Board decided to establish a task team whose terms of reference are as follows:
To ensure the effective implementation of the recommendations of the ICC’s independent security advisors; and
Liaise with various stakeholders, including embassies within Pakistan and other Governments, on an ongoing basis to ensure effective communication and the management of any concerns that may exist
Those individuals and groups that will be invited to be part of the task team are the ICC President David Morgan, Sharad Pawar, the ICC President-Elect, ICC Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat, the ICC Principal Advisor Inderjit Singh Bindra, Nasim Ashraf, the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and representatives of ICC’s Broadcast Partner ESPN STAR Sports, the ICC’s independent security advisors and the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA).
The ICC Board consists of the Chairman or President from each of the ten ICC Full Members plus three Associate Member representatives, as well as the ICC President, who chairs proceedings, the ICC Chief Executive Officer and the ICC President-Elect.
Those individuals on the conference call were as follows:
David Morgan OBE ICC President
Sharad Pawar Vice-President
Haroon Lorgat ICC Chief Executive Officer
Creagh O’Connor Australia
Major General Sina Ibn Jamali Bangladesh
Giles Clarke England
Shashank Manohar 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 Member Representatives
Neil Speight Bermuda
Samir Inamdar Kenya
Imran Khawaja Singapore
Inderjit Singh Bindra, the ICC Principal Advisor, was also present on the call.
The ICC Champions Trophy, the game’s second “major” after the ICC Cricket World Cup, is a short, sharp event involving the top eight teams in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table as of 11 March 2008.
Those teams will be divided into two groups with three round-robin matches for each, before the top two line-ups from each of those groups go forward to semi-finals and a final.
The defending champion is Australia, which beat the West Indies in the 2006 final, in Mumbai, India.
ICC MEDIA RELEASE