ICC Annual Conference week begins at Lord's on Monday with Chief Executives' Committee

ICC Board meeting on Wednesday and Thursday FTP post-2012 to be considered Joint CEC and ICC Board strategy session on Thursday 25 June Media opportunity with President David Morgan and Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat at Lord’s at 1700 on 25 June

The ICC Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) will start off a series of meetings for world cricket’s leading administrators when it begins its discussions at Lord’s on Monday 22 June.

The two-day CEC meeting 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 – and adoption or otherwise – by the ICC Board, which will meet over two days on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 June.

There will also be a joint strategy session involving the CEC and the ICC Board which will take place on the afternoon of Thursday 25 June (further details below).

The week will conclude with the ICC’s Annual Conference on Friday 26 June.

There will be a media opportunity following the joint strategy session with ICC President David Morgan and Haroon Lorgat, the ICC Chief Executive. This opportunity will take place in the Thomas Lord Suite, situated just inside the venue next to the Grace Gates and will take place no earlier than 1700 BST, although the timing cannot be precise as it will depend upon when the strategy session concludes.

Please note, in order to gain access to the ground members of the media should ensure they wear either their ICC World Twenty20 or ECB season accreditation, or some other form of photo identification that confirms their credentials. Please note, there will be no parking for media within the venue. There may be limited space for broadcasters wishing to use satellite trucks. For confirmation of this, please contact Marylebone Cricket Club media manager Clare Skinner on +44 7960 869 826.

The main agenda items for the week of meetings include: ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

The President will report following recent discussions concerning the issues the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has in relation to the hosting of matches in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

Future Tours Programme (FTP) post-2012

The current FTP concludes in May 2012.

The CEC and the ICC Board will continue the process of considering the future landscape of the game at international level.

This follows on from bi- and multi-lateral discussion among Members on that landscape ahead of this week of meetings.

The ICC is committed to ensuring any new FTP achieves a balance between and a proper context for all three formats as well as identifies the financial and other issues of imbalance among Members.

ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said: “The structure of the international tour programme is the absolute key to ensuring the continuing popularity of international cricket and its financial well being.

“All of our Members accept the need for a framework for that programme in order to provide certainty for stakeholders and a proper context for the matches that are scheduled.

“Exploring various options among ourselves and, more recently, our Members has been an ongoing process for the past year and now we must come together to provide certainty and context through a new FTP for the period post-2012.”

CEC and ICC Board joint strategy session (Thursday 25 June)

These two groups will come together on Thursday so that the key issues and challenges likely to impact on the future of international cricket can be put on the table and explored.

This follows the ICC Chief Executive leading a process at the CEC during its meetings in Cape Town (December 2008) and Johannesburg (February 2009).

ICC President David Morgan said: “This session is important because it brings together the Chief Executives and Chairmen/Presidents of all our major Members.

“It will ask them to switch from considering the day-to-day issues and challenges they face and focus instead on the longer term future of our great sport.

“The idea is to seek to develop a shared vision of the future and a programme of action to shape that future for the benefit of our stakeholders.

“This session will not be an end in itself, but focussing on a shared vision will, without doubt, contribute to effective decision-making by and between Members.”

Recommendations from the ICC Cricket Committee

The CEC will consider recommendations made by the ICC Cricket Committee during its meeting in London in May on the playing of the game.

These recommendations include:

• that the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) is rolled out in Test cricket from October 2009;

• that day/night Test cricket was an opportunity to be explored providing several factors (successful trials of an appropriate ball; research on whether or not it was what stakeholders want; and successful trials at first-class level) were addressed. Providing these factors could be satisfactorily addressed over the coming months then the Cricket Committee agreed the concept could be explored further. This could involve the committee receiving an update at the start of 2010 ahead of an update to the CEC and, if appropriate, a day/night Test could be trialled later that year;

• that stricter penalties should be imposed on Boards and venues found guilty of producing pitches considered “poor” or “unfit.” These penalties could range from fines of up to US$30,000 and suspension of a venue for up to three years with the need for it to be re-accredited before it could host further international cricket; and

• that play should only be suspended for bad light when umpires considered conditions unreasonable or dangerous (rather than as is currently the case, unsuitable) and that the umpires would make that decision rather than offer the batsmen the option to choose.

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 Officer and the ICC Vice-President.

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’s Chief Executive Officer. The ICC President and the Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee will be in attendance.