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RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 02-01-2016
Lol @ Gilesy
Quote:Giles Clarke's hopes of becoming the next chairman of the ICC appear to be receding, with neither Australia nor South Africa expected to support his candidacy should he choose to stand for election later this year.http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/968037.html
In order to fulfil his long-held ambition and assume the most high-profile post in world cricket, Clarke would require a majority of the 13 board votes - comprising ten full-member nations and three associate representatives - at the ICC election in June.
However, with campaigning expected to get underway in earnest at this week's board meeting in Dubai, it is understood that Cricket South Africa is particularly opposed to Clarke's candidacy, at a time when many of the reforms that he was so instrumental in driving through during the so-called "Big Three" takeover of 2014 are set to be repealed.
Lorgat in frame for return?
The apparent sidelining of Giles Clarke could yet pave the way for a shock return to the helm for the former ICC chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, who left the role in acrimony in 2012 and was subsequently appointed as chief executive of CSA.
Lorgat's parting shot from his original ICC post was the commissioning of the Woolf Report, an independent governance review by Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, which called for greater transparency and accountability from the men charged with the running of the sport.
The report attracted the ire of India, Australia and England in particular, who not only ignored its findings but swiftly implemented a range of counter-measures whereby those three boards would take the lion's share of ICC revenue, with India being allocated 22 percent.
ESPNcricinfo understands that Lorgat held lengthy meetings at Shashank Manohar's house in Nagpur during South Africa's Test tour of India in November - a marked step up in status from his previous dealings with the BCCI, in 2013-14, when India's tour of South Africa was truncated at the last minute, at an estimated cost of US$20 million, in an apparent show of displeasure at Lorgat's appointment to the CSA role.
"Giles Clarke is the type of personality to say it so much that people believe he is the chairman, and that's it. That's not the case," a CSA insider told journalists at a briefing in South Africa. "We have written to the ICC and it is on the agenda for changing the constitution. There is every likelihood that the ICC will reverse the structure and the things that it did two years ago."
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - pj57 - 02-01-2016
^^This bugger should be kept far away as possible from the ICC.
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - Bada - 02-04-2016
The ICC has announced it will carry out a complete constitutional review of the changes brought about by the "Big Three" takeover in 2014. Moves have already begun to dismantle the system of governance proposed by the BCCI, ECB and CA two years ago, with confirmation of the expected change to make the ICC chairman an independent position.
The outcomes from the ICC board meeting on Wednesday also included removing permanent positions for India, England and Australia on the Executive Committee and the Financial & Commercial Affairs Committee - the ICC's two most powerful forums.
In a statement, the ICC said the board had "agreed to carry out a complete review of the 2014 resolutions and constitutional changes with a view to establishing governance, finance, corporate and cricketing structures that are appropriate and effective for the strategic role and function of the ICC and all of its members".
Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president who is also currently serving as ICC chairman, signalled his intention to roll back the changes overseen by his predecessor N Srinivasan in an interview last year, when he referred to "the three major countries bullying the ICC". Manohar will now head the five-man steering group set up to conduct the review, with an aim of putting forward recommendations at the ICC's annual conference in June.
Alongside Manohar on the steering group will be ECB president Giles Clarke, in his role as chairman of the F&CA Committee. Clarke was one of the architects of the ICC revamp and had been expected to run for the position of chairman. The rest of the group will comprise heads of the ICC's Governance Review Committee, Executive Committee and Associate/Affiliate Member group: Nazmul Hassan, David Peever and Andrew Armitage respectively.
The introduction of an independent chairman was intended to "avoid any potential conflicts of interest and to follow best practice principles of good governance". The ICC's next chairman, to be elected later this year, will no longer be able to hold a position on their home board, as Srinivasan and subsequently Manohar did.
Candidates to succeed Manohar must have served as an ICC director. The chairman will be able to serve for a maximum of three two-year terms.
Manohar said the board had agreed on a need for greater transparency and would reinstate the practice of Full Member boards presenting their audited accounts to the ICC on an annual basis. Three of the board's four annual meetings will now take place outside of the UAE, where the ICC is headquartered, with the Annual Conference set to be held in Edinburgh from June 27 to July 2.
"We had very purposeful and positive meetings, and the decisions taken clearly reflect that we collectively want to improve the governance in a transparent manner, not only of the ICC but also the Member Boards," Manohar said. "This, in turn, will enhance the image and quality of the sport. No Member of the ICC is bigger than the other and I am determined to make a meaningful contribution in this regard with support of all the Members."
Other areas addressed during the board meeting in Dubai included an update on the cricket's potential viability as an Olympic sport, which concluded that further work was required; and the establishment of an Anti-Corruption Oversight Group, which includes former India batsman Rahul Dravid, to annually review strategies to fight corruption.
The ICC has also reinstated Sri Lanka Cricket's full membership. SLC had been stripped of its voting rights at the ICC table in April last year, when the ICC took a dim view of a politically appointed board in Sri Lanka. That board was dissolved and elections held early in January. The ICC also said "SLC is now entitled to full funding", after having kept payments due to SLC in escrow last year.
The USA Cricket Association remains suspended, although the ICC has approved development and high-performance projects for 2016, to be funded from a "special projects" budget.
A change has been made to the qualification process for the 2018 Under-19 World Cup, with the highest-placed Associate team from the ongoing tournament in Bangladesh being given an automatic spot, alongside the ten-Test playing nations. The remaining five sides will qualify through the regional qualifying tournaments.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/968983.html
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - Bada - 02-11-2016
MCC to trial red cards for bad behaviour
https://www.lords.org/news/2016-2/february/mcc-to-trial-red-cards-for-bad-behaviour/
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - pj57 - 03-07-2016
International team under corruption investigation
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/978837.html
Now...now....which international team could that be
.....can't be us, for god's sake. We don' t this shit with all the other shit we are facing at the moment.
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 03-07-2016
I hope its us, cuz that be easier to swallow than us being this shit.
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - Bada - 04-26-2016
Outcomes from ICC Board and committee meetings
http://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2016/media-releases/94751/outcomes-from-icc-board-and-committee-meetings
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - Bada - 05-05-2016
Roger Knight, the president of MCC, has told club members during the AGM at Lord's that Test cricket has "become London-centric" and "the time has come to pay attention to that fact".
Knight's comments come amid fears that Lord's could be forced to relinquish its privileged status of hosting two Tests a year, due to the likelihood that fewer Tests will be staged when the ECB re-negotiates its TV rights packages from 2019.
Drawing upon recent statistics, Knight told his audience of 600 members during the president's address that attendances at Tests held outside London in May during the past three seasons had attracted fewer than 110,000 spectators - 32% of the figure for Lord's.
Several non-London venues have struggled in recent years to sell tickets for Test cricket. In 2012, Cardiff relinquished the right to host West Indies in the first Test of that summer, with Lord's taking the contest instead. The crowd for that match, Knight added, ended up being higher than the other two grounds for the three-Test series, Trent Bridge and Edgbaston, added together.
Durham, who host the second match of the forthcoming Sri Lanka tour, are not expected to bid for any more Tests in the near future following their failure to sell out the fourth day of their Ashes-sealing Test in 2013. In recent seasons even Headingley, where the Test summer will begin on May 19, has struggled to live up to Yorkshire's traditional support for the format.
Between them, Lord's (129) and The Oval (98) have hosted just under half of the 494 Tests to have been played in England since 1880. Ever since the introduction of a seven-Test summer programme in 2000, London has hosted three matches per season, with Lord's claiming two, and The Oval one.
"When one examines the attendances at Test matches around the country, it is noticeable, in respect of the first series of the summer especially, that crowds at Lord's are far greater than at other grounds," said Knight, who added that 342,000 members and spectators had attended Lord's May Test in the past three years.
Ticket prices are another significant factor in the viability of Test venues, and here it could be argued that London, with an economic micro-climate that is far removed from the rest of the country, is more of a problem than a solution.
With a greater proportion of corporate clients than other venues, Lord's and The Oval are able to charge significantly higher prices for a day's play - Headingley's and Chester-le-Street's general admission tickets for the Sri Lanka series are priced at £55 and £35 respectively. Certainly, the London venues would argue there is little reason to follow Cricket Australia's recent policy of capping their prices for Tests and ODIs at A$30 per day.
But Lord's, who are midway through a £21 million rebuilding of the Warner Stand, remain fearful that the change of emphasis at the ECB - with white-ball cricket and, especially, T20, becoming an ever more significant part of the board's long-term strategy - will leave their ground with fewer big games to justify their expensive outlay.
"The Committee is doing its utmost to ensure that MCC is placed in the best possible position to continue to host two Test matches in every year when there are two touring teams," said Knight. "We have enjoyed such a programme in most years since 1965; but it is by no means certain that from 2020 onwards there will be sufficient Test matches to enable MCC to be awarded two per summer.
"This is nothing to do with the club's capacity to stage these matches, nor is it a result of our relationship with ECB, which I can tell you is healthy. It is simply because there may not be sufficient Test matches to distribute amongst the grounds that would expect to stage them. I feel that the position is improving slightly, but there should be no complacency."
Elsewhere in his address, Knight highlighted the MCC World Cricket committee's role in the pioneering of day/night first-class cricket, with the recent Test between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide following on from the successful implementation of a pink ball for the MCC v Champion County fixture in the UAE.
"The floodlit Test match between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide in November was a huge success," said Knight. "Large crowds, a fantastic atmosphere, an entertaining match, a unique event.
"It was an inspired choice to play it at the Adelaide Oval - and the MCC World Cricket committee in particular is to be congratulated for providing the inspiration, for the idea originated from them."
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/1008399.html
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 05-05-2016
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the BCCI's constitution was incapable of achieving the values of transparency, objectivity and accountability, and these could only be attained by changing it.
"The inherent constitution of the BCCI is such that it is highly incapable of achieving the values of transparency, objectivity and accountability [such] that without changing its structure it can't be done so," a two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice Ibrahim Kalifulla said, while hearing a matter related to the implementation of reforms suggested by the three-member panel led by Justice RM Lodha.
The court's remarks were made after the views presented by senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, who was appointed amicus curiae to assist the court on how the recommendations of the Lodha committee, which favoured large-scale structural reforms to the BCCI, could be implemented.
Subramanium said that if the constitution of the BCCI does not allow the values to be achieved then it could be said to be illegal as the cricket board is discharging a public function.
"You discharge a public function but you want to enjoy private status," Subramanium said. "If you have a public persona then you have to shed the private persona. This cannot be done. It [the BCCI] selects the national team for the country, it cannot be a private society. It is a public entity."
http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/1007965.html
Where is our Lodha panel?
RE: ICC/MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 05-05-2016
India's Supreme Court, on Monday, made it clear that all state cricket associations will have to "fall in line" with the recommendations of Justice RM Lodha led-panel on structural reforms in the BCCI. The court had tasked a three-member committee with recommending changes to the BCCI's constitution and manner of functioning in the wake of match-fixing and spot-fixing scandal that occurred in IPL 2013. The panel presented its report in January this year.
"Once the BCCI is reformed it will go down the line and all cricket associations will have to reform themselves if they want to associate with it. The committee constituted in the wake of match-fixing and spot-fixing allegations was a serious exercise and not a futile exercise," a two-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur, said.
The bench said that recommendations of reforms in the BCCI were made by a committee of experts after extensive deliberations with stakeholders, and the findings could not be defined as "just recommendations". The court's statement was in response to the Haryana Cricket Association's argument that the Lodha panel's findings were only recommendations and a few of them were not feasible for cricket bodies to implement.
"It will no longer remain just recommendations if we say it has to be implemented," the court said. "It was called recommendations as some of the findings of the committee were implemented by the BCCI during the deliberations itself and some were not implemented.
"We are hearing the issue because we are seeing whether the recommendations which have not been implemented can be implemented or not. [The] Justice RM Lodha committee has said that what has been done is just cosmetic and what is required is not cosmetic reforms but more than that."
The apex court also pulled up the Haryana association for objecting to the recommendation of an age cap of 70 years for office bearers, and asked whether "some office bearers in cricket bodies think they are indispensable".
"Do you think that some office bearers in cricket bodies think they are indispensable? Nobody is indispensable, leave alone the cricket administrators," the bench said. "There should be time when you have to say enough is enough, and pave the way for others to take charge."
http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/1007381.html