Dates decided for ICC Champions Trophy
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The second and final day of the ICC Board meeting took place in Dubai on Wednesday
.The major agenda item covered was as follows:
ICC Champions Trophy 2009
The Board considered the options available to slot the Champions Trophy into the Future Tours Programme in 2009 following the postponement of the event from Pakistan in September 2008 owing to safety and security concerns.
The Board received a presentation on the subject in the wake of work carried out by the Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat and ICC management, including input from ICC Full Members.
The Board agreed the ICC Champions Trophy would take place between 24 September and 5 October 2009.
It was further agreed that because the event was reduced in duration (12 days including a reserve day for the final instead of the 17 days set aside in 2008) it would be played in one city.
The ICC Board will make a final decision on the location of the event following India’s tour to Pakistan in the first part of 2009 so that it can provide certainty to teams, broadcasters, commercial partners and other stakeholders.
A full schedule and also the location for the matches will be announced in due course.
ICC President David Morgan said: “We are delighted to have slotted the ICC Champions Trophy into the FTP in 2009 thus maintaining the primacy of ICC events, and we now look forward to staging an outstanding, memorable event next September/October.
“The ICC Champions Trophy is part of a host of great ICC tournaments taking place next year, including the ICC Women’s World Cup, the ICC World Cup Qualifier and the ICC World Twenty20 for both men and women.
“All these events during the ICC Centenary year will showcase cricket in the best possible light and will help to ensure that our great game remains a strong sport growing stronger.”
ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said: “I’m hugely encouraged by the spirit of togetherness and teamwork shown by our Members in ensuring we have found a place for the ICC Champions Trophy in next year’s calendar.
“The tournament, with its new format of the top eight teams playing in a short, sharp event, is vitally important for the world game because it allows those Members, as well as the developing cricket world, to grow the sport.
“It is part of the ICC’s commitment to the game and we can now look forward to a great event next year.”
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The ICC Board consists of the chairman or president from each of the 10 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 President, the ICC Principal Advisor.
David Morgan OBE ICC President
Sharad Pawar ICC Vice-President
Haroon Lorgat ICC Chief Executive
Creagh O’Connor Australia
Gazi Ashraf Hossain (alternate for Major General Sina Ibn Jamali)
Bangladesh
Giles Clarke England
Shashank Manohar India
Alan Isaac New Zealand
Ijaz Butt Pakistan
Arjuna Ranatunga Sri Lanka
Logan Naidoo South Africa
Dr Julian Hunte OBE West Indies
Peter Chingoka Zimbabwe
Associate Member Representatives
Neil Speight Bermuda
Samir Inamdar Kenya
Imran Khwaja Singapore
In attendance
IS Bindra ICC Principal Advisor
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