Both groups to discuss ICC Champions Trophy while future landscape of cricket and technology trial also on CEC agenda
Media conference to be held after conclusion of meetings; details to be announced
The ICC Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) will convene in Dubai on Wednesday and Thursday for one of its four meetings per year.
The two-day gathering, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 10 and 11 September, 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 by the ICC Board’s October meeting.
Also on Thursday 11 September the ICC Board will gather at the same location to discuss the issue of the ICC Champions Trophy, which was to be held in Pakistan from 12-28 September and unanimously postponed because of security concerns held by several of the participating teams.
The ICC Board will consider views of the CEC and seek to chart a course towards the successful staging of the event in 2009.
A media conference will be held at the conclusion of business on 11 September, also at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and details of the timing and exact location of that conference will be announced in due course.
Among the items for discussion on the CEC agenda are the following:
Future Tours Programme post-2012
With the current FTP due to conclude in May 2012, the concept of an alternative structure to bilateral tours, including an enhanced Test championship, was discussed by both the CEC and the ICC Board during meetings in Dubai in June/July.
Further to those discussions and subsequent feedback provided by ICC Members to the ICC’s management, the subject will be assessed further during the course of this CEC meeting.
The key considerations for both the ICC Board and the CEC were and are:
· 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
· 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
Umpire Decision Review System
CEC will receive a report on the trial of the above system, which took place in the recent Sri Lanka versus India Test series.
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 Chief Executive. The ICC President and the Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee will be in attendance.
David Morgan ICC President
Haroon Lorgat ICC Chief Executive
Clive Lloyd ICC Cricket Committee Chairman
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 Member representatives
John Cribbin Hong Kong
Warren Deutrom Ireland
Laurie Pieters Namibia
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 and the ICC Vice-President, as well as, by invitation of the ICC President, the ICC Principal Advisor.
David Morgan OBE ICC President
Haroon Lorgat ICC Chief Executive
Sharad Pawar ICC Vice President
Creagh O’Connor Australia
Gazi Ashraf Hossain Bangladesh
Giles Clarke England
Shashank Manohar India
Alan Isaac New Zealand
Shafqat Nahgmi 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 Khwaja Singapore
IS Bindra ICC Principal Advisor
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