ICC defers decision on ICL application for recognition
The International Cricket Council on Saturday deferred a decision on Indian Cricket League’s application for official recognition besides holding back its plan to start an enhanced Test championship following reservations from Indian and English cricket boards.
“Consideration of the ICL’s application for approval by the ICC was deferred pending further discussions between representatives of the BCCI, ICL and the ICC,” a statement issued after first day’s deliberations of the two-day meeting said.
The ICC board did not give any date for the proposed meeting.
Last year, the ICC had asked the BCCI and ICL to sort out the issue between themselves but talks between the two bodies had ended in a stalemate.
Regarding an enhanced Test championship in the Futures Tour Programme (FTP) post-2012, the ICC said owing to reservations from the BCCI and ECB, it was forced to shelve the plan for the moment till further discussion between the ICC management and the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee with a view to producing an acceptable model.
“It was further agreed this process would be led by ICC General Manager-Cricket David Richardson and would take place in the lead-up to and during the next CEC meeting, due to be held in Johannesburg in February,” the ICC statement said.
The board also decided to take up the overrate issue in subsequent meetings.
The meeting also felt that Zimbabwe was not yet ready to be ushered back into Test cricket.
