ICC meeting to discuss spot-fixing, World Cup
The International Cricket Council is meeting in Dubai in a two-day meet to hear on a variety of issues including the recent spot-fixing scandal on Pakistan’s tour of England in August. Some of the other points of discussions are related to the formats of
the World Cup and the ICC World T20 and the Test Championship.
The meeting will see the ICC board comprising of the chief of each of the ten Test playing countries and a member from each of the top three Associate Members along with the three officials of the ICC - the president, the vice-president and the chief executive.
The three Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, all of whom are suspended thanks to the spot-fixing allegations, will have an independent hearing at the end of October in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986. The ICC will be apprised of the situation.
However, the more exciting part of the meeting will consist of the review of the recommendations that have been provided by the ICC Chief Executives' Committee to get in a drastically new format of how cricket is played internationally. These suggestions include
the change in the number of teams in the World Cup from 14 to 10 and increasing the number of sides in the World T20 to 16. There is also a recommendation to have a four-year long Test league apart from an ODI league spread over three years.
The non-Test playing nations, or associates, have already panned the proposal to reduce the number of teams from 14 to 10 for the World Cup. According to the associate nations, this will mean that they will lose out on exposure and revenue and this will make
it difficult for them to sustain.
One of the other important agenda items is the reporting of the development of cricket in two of the potentially biggest markets in the world – USA and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Usa-c759 is one of the top ten associate countries in the world, while China is taking steps towards joining
the big league as well.
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