ICC should standardise one brand of ball in Tests: Waqar Younis
Cricket | Sep 03, 2020, 06:37 PM ISTThe Pakistan cricket team played with the Dukes ball during their recent tour of England, where the visitors lost 0-2 a three-Test series.
The Pakistan cricket team played with the Dukes ball during their recent tour of England, where the visitors lost 0-2 a three-Test series.
The second of three Challenge League A events, which form part of the pathway to the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023, was rescheduled from March and was due to take place between September 30 and October 10 in Malaysia
The announcement was made during an online ceremony on the ICC portal in the presence of some of the greats of the game.
Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday evening. A terse post on his Instagram page read, 'consider me retired'.
The sole agenda of Monday's meeting was to finalise the nomination process for the election but no breakthrough could be made over a unanimous choice to lead the ICC.
The qualifiers for the tournament were supposed to be held in July, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic.
It is expected that the entire process irrespective of whether it's an election or unanimous selection will be over by four weeks.
It is expected that the BCCI and CA will reach a consensus on hosting the 2021 and 2022 editions of the men's T20 World Cup.
The women's 50-over World Cup is slated to be held from February 6 to March 7 next year.
Dave Cameron, who is harbouring ambitions for chairman's post at ICC, has said that he wants longer T20 Leagues including the IPL in the cricket calendar.
The Super League was launched by ICC on Monday in a bid to give more importance to the 50-over format.
The Super League format, which will not just revive 50-over cricket, in its way, will also decide the teams that will qualify for the next World Cup
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the Futures Tours and Programme (FTP) into disarray with the T20 World Cup already postponed to give member nations time to complete their bilateral commitments.
Hosts India and the next top seven teams in the Super League will automatically qualify for the World Cup, the world body stated in a press release.
Sangakkara, who is also the first non-British chief of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), said that an individual presiding over an international governing body has to have the interests of all cricketing countries at heart.
ICC has postponed September's Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 series to be hosted in Namibia and the U19 Cricket World Cup Regional Qualifier Division 2 due to take place in August in Tanzania.
New Zealand Cricket chairperson Greg Barclay has stated that a decision on the 2021 Women's World Cup will be made in the next two weeks.
In case the event is shifted to 2022, all ticket holders will be entitled to a full refund, the ICC stated
Ideally, India is set to host the 2021 T20 World Cup. But with Australia not being able to hold the 2020 edition, they have requested for ICC to hand them the rights for the 2021 edition while the 2022 edition can be taken by India.
T20 World Cup 2020: The decision was announced after a decisive round of deliberation when the ICC board met virtually on Monday
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