No More ICC, No More Cricket for ALL
India become the Cricket Ruler , Position paper approved by 8 members including S.A in Singapore
Pakistan and Sri lanka not oppose not vote for big three
Currentline (Singapore)According to ICC Media Release the following decision were made in board members meeting in Singapore.
ICC Board approves changes to governance, competition and
financial models of ICC
The ICC Board today approved a comprehensive resolution
relating t
The key elements of the resolution are as follows:
Protecting Test cricket
A Test Cricket Fund will be introduced to help ensure all of the
Test playing teams will be able to sustain a home programme of Test cricket
through to 2023. The fund will be available to all of the Test playing Members
except the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA)
and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
There was also
confirmation that all Full Members will enter into a series of contractually
binding bi-lateral agreements as a matter of urgency so that they can confirm a
comprehensive schedule of matches in a Future Tours Programme that will now be
extended to 2023.
Breaking the glass ceiling
Associate Members now have a clear pathway to playing Test
cricket. The winner of the next ICC Intercontinental Cup will be entitled to
take part in a play-off against the bottom-ranked Full Member and, if
successful, obtain Test status. This complements the pathways that are already
in place for any Member to be able to qualify for the major events in ODI and
T20I cricket.
A certain and attractive package of ICC major events
The World Test
Championship will be replaced with an ICC Champions Trophy in 2017 and 2021.
It proved impossible to
come up with a format for a four-team finals event in Test cricket that fits
the culture of Test cricket and preserves the integrity of the format.
The most recent ICC
Champions Trophy event proved to be very popular with supporters around the
world and the future events will build on this success. It’s also an event that
any ICC Member (including the top Associate Members) can aspire to qualifying
for by improving their performances in ODI cricket.
With the ICC Champions
Trophy alongside the ICC Cricket World Cup and ICC World Twenty20 and the
formats and venues already confirmed for all of these events the ICC has a
really attractive package for 2015-23 to take to the market.
A new financial model for Full Members
Full Members will gain greater financial recognition based on the
contribution they have made to the game, particularly in terms of finance,
their ICC history and their on-field performances in the three formats.
This decision is the
outcome of a negotiation between Members that has been required to provide
long-term certainty of participation of all Members in both ICC events and
bilateral series against other Members. Without that certainty, the rights for
ICC events, which are to be taken to market this year, would have been
significantly impacted and, by extension, so would the financial support that
has driven the growth of cricket around the world.
The structure of the
model will ensure that none of the Full Members will be worse off than they are
at present and - if forecasts of revenue generation prove to be correct – all
will be significantly better off. The agreement of the model has been an
important part of a wider negotiation that will now provide long-term certainty
of participation in ICC events by all of the Full Member teams.
Enhanced support for the leading Associate Members
Funds that will be directly distributed to Associate and Affiliate
Members (AMs) will continue to grow, building on a dramatic increase in the
previous cycle (2007-15) if revenue targets are achieved. There is also a
commitment to continue to support tournaments for all of the AMs and a range of
centralised services.
The planning process
for the next cycle can now begin in earnest and, as part of this, there will be
a review – in partnership with the AMs and their representatives – of the
appropriate scope of services and tournaments and the suitability of the
current scorecard distribution model of the funds.
N.Srinivasan from BCCI to Chair the ICC Board from mid-2014
The ICC Board will continue to be the primary decision-making
body. From the start of July this year, the ICC Chairman will be N.Srinivasan
from the BCCI.
A new Executive Committee will be formed to report into the Board.
The initial Chair of this Executive Committee (ExCo) will be Wally Edwards from
Cricket Australia while the Chair of the Finance and Commercial Affairs
Committee (F&CA) will continue to be Giles Clarke from the ECB. These roles
will be for an initial two year transitional period to 2016 only.
Once this transitional period is completed, the Chair of the ICC
Board will be elected from within the ICC Board with all Full Member Directors
entitled to stand for election.
BCCI, CA and ECB - will
be represented on both sub-committees, along with two representatives of the
other Full Members (who will be elected by the Board).
Several of these decisions still now need to be considered and
adopted by the ICC’s Full Council. The relevant resolutions will now be drafted
through the appropriate committees, including the Governance Committee and the
Board before being submitted for approval to Full Council.
A set
of proposals was initially developed by the respective Chairs of BCCI, CA and
ECB – N.Srinivasan, Wally Edwards and Giles Clarke before being presented to a
meeting of the Full Members on 9 January.
These proposals were then discussed, negotiated and
modified at two subsequent ICC Board meetings. A resolution was put to a vote
today and supported by the required majority of the ICC Board, including eight
Full Members. Two of the Full Members – Pakistan Cricket Board and Sri Lanka
Cricket - abstained in the vote as they felt they needed more time to discuss
the amended resolution with their respective Boards.
ICC President Alan Isaac said:
“The Board has made some significant decisions today which provide us with
long-term certainty in relation to the future governance, competition and
financial models of the ICC.
“This
decision comes after extensive discussions between Members that I helped
initiate and were given impetus through a position paper presented by the BCCI,
Cricket Australia and ECB in early January.
“Since
this time a set of resolutions have been drafted, negotiated and modified –
based on a set of principles agreed by the ICC Board on 28 January – and
finalized at the meeting today. There were eight Full Members who were in a
position to support the resolution today and the two who abstained have pledged
to further discuss the issues with an aim to reaching unanimous approval over
the coming weeks.”
ICC Chief Executive David Richardson said: “We now have
clear direction from the Board and it is our job to implement the approved
resolution.”
The ICC Board consists of the
chairman or president from each of the 10 Full Members plus three elected
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.
Alan
Isaac
ICC President
Mustafa
Kamal
ICC Vice-President
David
Richardson
ICC Chief Executive
Zaka
Ashraf
Pakistan
Peter
Chingoka
Zimbabwe
Giles
Clarke
England and Wales
Wally
Edwards
Australia
Nazmul
Hassan
Bangladesh
Imran
Khwaja
Associate Member Representative
Emmanuel
Nanthar *
West Indies
Chris
Nenzani
South Africa
Keith
Oliver
Associate Member Representative
Nishantha Ranatunga *
Sri Lanka
Martin
Snedden
New Zealand
Neil
Speight
Associate Member Representative
Narayanaswami Srinivasan
India
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