ICC plans for improvement in ground safety
ICC President Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya today announced that the ICC Executive Board had met in Dubai and approved a detailed action plan to provide improved security measures at grounds
- All countries with One Day International cricket status would participate in the ICC Knock-Out to be held in Nairobi from 3-15 October 2000. The Board sees the inclusion of Kenya and Bangladesh as a further opportunity to assist their high performance development. The final dates and program will be announced later.
- Consideration will be given to increasing the number of teams in the 2003 World Cup from 12 to 14. The Board will review different formats at its February meeting after countries have considered the ECB report on the 1999 event.
- The Chairman of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, Lord Griffiths, has convened a Panel comprising himself, Sir Oliver Popplewell (England) and Justice Sachs (South Africa) to review the reports from the 1997 BCCI Inquiry and the 1999 ACB (O'Regan) Inquiry, including an unpublished confidential chapter from the latter Inquiry. The Panel will meet later this month. Lord Griffiths' advice in relation to recent allegations of approaches to New Zealand Captain Stephen Fleming and England player Chris Lewis is for ICC to await the outcome of police investigations being conducted by Scotland Yard.
- The second Under 19 World Cup will be staged in Sri Lanka from 11th-28th January. In addition to the 9 Full Members, Ireland and Holland have qualified from Europe, Bangladesh and Nepal from Asia, Namibia and Kenya will represent the African region and a combined team from Argentina, Bermuda, Canada and USA will represent the Americas region.
- A second inspection of Bangladesh's cricket facilities will be undertaken in early 2000 as part of the review of their application for Test status.