Result of ICC Board teleconference ? ICC Champions Trophy remains in Pakistan
Task team set up to manage concerns, liaise with embassies and Governments
The ICC Board today held a teleconference to discuss the location for this year’s ICC Champions Trophy, at the end of which it reiterated its decision of 2006 to stage the event in Pakistan.
In arriving at that position the Board considered various security reports and discussed at length the concerns of some Members and stakeholders as well as the perceptions of Pakistan that may exist in some quarters. Those discussions lasted two-and-a-quarter hours.
In recognizing those concerns and perceptions, the Board agreed they needed to be managed going forward, both before and during the tournament.
In order to do this, the Board decided to establish a task team whose terms of reference are as follows:
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To ensure the effective implementation of the recommendations of the ICC’s independent security advisors; and
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Liaise with various stakeholders, including embassies within Pakistan and other Governments, on an ongoing basis to ensure effective communication and the management of any concerns that may exist
Those individuals and groups that will be invited to be part of the task team are the ICC President David Morgan, Sharad Pawar, the ICC President-Elect, ICC Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat, the ICC Principal Advisor Inderjit Singh Bindra, Nasim Ashraf, the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and representatives of ICC’s Broadcast Partner ESPN STAR Sports, the ICC’s independent security advisors and the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA).
The ICC Board consists of the Chairman or President from each of the ten ICC Full Members plus three Associate Member representatives, as well as the ICC President, who chairs proceedings, the ICC Chief Executive Officer and the ICC President-Elect.
Those individuals on the conference call were as follows:
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David Morgan OBE |
ICC President |
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Sharad Pawar |
Vice-President |
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Haroon Lorgat |
ICC Chief Executive Officer |
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Creagh O’Connor |
Australia |
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Major General Sina Ibn Jamali |
Bangladesh |
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Giles Clarke |
England |
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Shashank Manohar |
India |
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Dr Justin Vaughan (alternate for Sir John Anderson KBE) |
New Zealand |
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Dr Nasim Ashraf |
Pakistan |
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Arjuna Ranatunga |
Sri Lanka |
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Norman Arendse |
South Africa |
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Dr Julian Hunte OBE |
West Indies |
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Peter Chingoka |
Zimbabwe |
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Associate Member Representatives |
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Neil Speight |
Bermuda |
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Samir Inamdar |
Kenya |
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Imran Khawaja |
Singapore |
Inderjit Singh Bindra, the ICC Principal Advisor, was also present on the call.
MEDIA NOTE:
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It is anticipated ICC President David Morgan will speak to SNTV; details of when the interview will be played out can be obtained from your usual SNTV sources or +44 20 8233 5770 (0800 – 2300 GMT)
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ICC Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat, in Colombo for the first Sri Lanka – India Test match, will be available to speak to media at the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo at 1930 local time (1400 GMT, 1500 BST)
The ICC Champions Trophy, the game’s second “major” after the ICC Cricket World Cup, is a short, sharp event involving the top eight teams in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table as of 11 March 2008.
Those teams will be divided into two groups with three round-robin matches for each, before the top two line-ups from each of those groups go forward to semi-finals and a final.
The defending champion is Australia, which beat the West Indies in the 2006 final, in Mumbai, India.
