MUMBAI: Leading member boards of the International Cricket Council(ICC)– with the BCCI, the England & Wales Cricket Board ( ECB) and Cricket Australia(CA) at the helm– have written to the worldwide body governing the game, asking for the Test Championship Cycle and the proposed one-day worldwide (ODI) league to be eliminated.
In addition, the boards, especially led by the ECB, have actually likewise communicated to the ICC that the Future Tours Program (FTP) draft– being driven forward by ICC chief executive Manu Sawhney’s office– likewise requires to be “revisited”.
These interactions happened in between the ICC and the member boards more than 2 weeks earlier, when the governing body held its March board conference through a teleconference. “This is a continuous discussion today. There’s absolutely no leadership coming out of the ICC whatsoever,” a leading administrator informed TOI on Thursday.
Today thought process stems from a collective viewpoint that the Test champion cycle, and the ODI league, in an extremely unsure calendar going forward, might possibly eat into the members’ bilateral plans. The BCCI too is categorically in line with the actions taken.
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