London, 19 June 2009
Meeting of four hosts to convene on Saturday 20 June with objective to produce recommendation for consideration by ICC Board next week
ICC President David Morgan, Vice-President Sharad Pawar and Ijaz Butt, the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), on Friday agreed on a possible means to resolve the PCB’s ongoing issues in relation to the hosting of matches in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.
The trio, meeting at The Oval following an earlier gathering of the four host nations (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) on Monday, decided to convene a meeting of representatives of those four hosts at Lord’s on Saturday (20 June).
That meeting, to be chaired by Mr Pawar in his capacity as Chairman of the tournament’s Central Organising Committee (COC) and with ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat also in attendance, would seek to arrive at a recommendation on where the 14 matches originally scheduled to be held in Pakistan could be played.
Any such recommendation would then go forward to the ICC’s commercial board (chaired by Mr Morgan) for consideration next Thursday (25 June), with that meeting taking place as part of the ICC’s annual conference week.
ICC President David Morgan said: “I am pleased we have made progress on this matter.
“Today’s meeting between myself, Mr Pawar and Mr Butt was never designed to be an end in itself but was, as stated on Monday, about identifying the best means to come up with a recommendation on where the matches originally scheduled to take place in Pakistan can be held.
“We believe we have come up with that means now, through the meeting of the host countries, and if they are able to produce a recommendation when they meet on Saturday then that can be tabled for consideration by the ICC’s commercial board next Thursday.”
The ICC Board in April decided that Pakistan could no longer host the matches it was originally allocated because of the country’s internal security situation.
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