ICC board expands 2014 World T20 teams

The move was announced Monday at the end of a two-day meeting and aims to appease the concerns of associate members who were angered when the ICC refused to expand this year’s tournament.

The board also approved three additional Twenty20 internationals to be played in the years in which the World Twenty20 is scheduled.

Current rules limit the number of T20 internationals to a maximum of 12 per team.

However, the board postponed a decision on the Woolf report, which calls for a sweeping reforms of the ICC, until its next meeting in June.

In a statement, the board decided there is “a real need for further discussions” among the directors and members to “build a consensus.”

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat agreed, saying “change in any form is challenging and it would be unrealistic to expect immediate decisions.”

The 68-page report, which was presented to the board earlier this year, calls for overhauling the sport’s governing body to ensure the ICC is no longer “a club” for the Test playing nations.

Instead, the ICC should be “positioned and empowered to promote, develop and act in the best interests of the international game as a whole,” the report concludes.

Among its 65 recommendations is a call for restructuring the ICC’s executive board to make it independent and give a greater voice to associate and affiliate nations.

Currently, the 10 full members are the only ones with a vote on the board but the report recommends adding three independent, voting members and an independent chairman to lead the board.

Publisher: AAPNewswire

16 Apr 10:31 PM