Two-day ICC Board meet in Dubai

The ICC Board will meet at its headquarters in Dubai on 12 and 13 October. Among the main items on the agenda are the following:

Spot-fixing allegations

The ICC Board, which has a zero-tolerance approach to corruption in cricket, will be updated on the spot-fixing allegations against three Pakistan players during a recent tour to England. Under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code, the players - Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif - were provisionally suspended from all cricket. In accordance with the provision of the code all three have appealed that provisional suspension and the independent hearing will take place in Doha, Qatar, on 30 and 31 October and will be chaired by the head of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, Michael Beloff, QC.

As has been the case up to now, comment from the ICC on this issue will be strictly limited so as not to prejudice the case.

Future Tours Programme 2012-2020 and context for international cricket

The Board will consider the recommendations from the ICC Chief Executives' Committee (CEC), which met in Cape Town last month. These recommendations seek to give exciting context and content for international cricket within the Future Tours Programme (FTP) after 2012 and also to consider future ICC events.

Specifically, the ICC Board will consider the following recommendations from CEC:

• The FTP should consist of a Test league to provide context for all Test matches. The league would determine the top four teams to qualify for an ICC Test play-off

• The play-off should be held once every four years to determine the Test champion team with a request to hold the first such play-off in 2013

• The FTP should also consist of a One-Day International league, the first to run from April 2011 until April 2014, culminating in the crowning of an ODI league champion. This would run separate to the ICC Cricket World Cup

• The ICC Cricket World Cup should consist of a 10-team format from 2015

• The ICC World Twenty20 should consist of a 16-team format from 2012, with the women's event continuing to run alongside

• The introduction of Twenty20 International rankings table as soon as this is justifiable.

Cricket development in China and USA

The ICC Board will hear reports from the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on cricket development in China while New Zealand Cricket, which has a principle partnership agreement with the United States Cricket Association, will report on progress in America. ICC President Sharad Pawar believes both Members should be a priority of the ICC Board, who will now discuss what future initiatives they wish to pursue in the two countries and what format they take within the parameters of the next ICC Strategic Plan 2011-15, which is also on the agenda for discussion.

Updates

The Board will also receive updates from the Pakistan Task Team, the Zimbabwe Task Team, the Governance Review Committee and the ongoing preparations for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka as well as discussing the content and direction of the ICC Strategic Plan 2011-15.

The ICC Board consists of the chairman or president from each of the 10 Full Members plus three Associate Member representatives. Also present at ICC Board meetings is the ICC President, who chairs proceedings, the ICC Chief Executive and the ICC Vice-President, as well as, by invitation of the President, the ICC Principal Advisor.

Associate Member Representatives

In attendance

Media arrangements:

A media release will be distributed after the second day of discussions.

ICC President Sharad Pawar and ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat will take part in a media conference after the second day of the meeting. This media conference will be held on the ground floor of ICC headquarters, Street 69, Dubai Sports City, Dubai. The time for Wednesday's conference will be advised in due course but will not take place before 1400 (UAE time).

Photographs of the meeting will be available via Getty Images. Details will be confirmed in due course. Further information can also be obtained by getting in touch with your usual Getty Images contacts.

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