NEW DELHI: A decision on the fate of this year’s T20 World Cup in Australia was on Wednesday deferred until next month by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which also decided to give the BCCI another six months to obtain mandatory tax exemptions for hosting tournaments.
The three-hour meeting of the all-powerful ICC Board, held via video conference, didn’t spell out anything on the nomination process to find outgoing chairman Shashank Manohar’s successor.
However, the ICC decided to continue investigations into the leak of classified e-mails and all board members were made party to the inquiry.
For BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, it was a good day in office as there was some headway, even though temporary, into the long-standing tax-exemption feud which started with the World T20 in India back in 2016.
“A six month extension in deadline means that there has been some headway in discussions between BCCI and ICC. Tax e