International Cricket Council reveals agendas of Jan 31 meeting

The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board will meet in Perth, Australia on January 31 and February 1 for the first of the four meetings it holds in a calendar year.

ICC President David Morgan will be joined by Vice-President Sharad Pawar and Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat besides Presidents of the boards of the ten major cricket playing nations. Representatives of ICC Associate Members Bermuda, Kenya and Singapore will also attend the high profile meeting.

Among the main items on the agenda are the following:

Zimbabwe: A task team, headed by Dr Julian Hunte, the president of the West Indies Cricket Board, will present an interim report to the ICC Board. This follows a visit to Zimbabwe by Dr Hunte and ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat in November last year.

Future Tours Programme (FTP) post-2012: With some members expressing reservations about the idea of an enhanced Test championship, the ICC Board will discuss a way forward in the process of developing a fixtures model, given the current FTP is due to finish in May 2012.

ICC Champions Trophy 2009: The ICC Board will discuss preparations for the tournament, due to take place in September/October. At its October 2008 meeting the Board agreed the event would take place between 24 September and 5 October 2009. At that same meeting 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.

Indian Cricket League (ICL): The ICC Board will discuss the ICL’s application to be approved by the ICC.