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The Lord’s Cricket Floor will host the ICC World Test Championship finals in 2023 and 2025, the ICC confirmed on Tuesday, all over its annual convention in Birmingham.
Lord’s was once also named the venue initially for the closing of the inaugural version of the World Test Championship (2019-2021) earlier than it was once moved to Southampton.
Correct thru the convention, the ICC Board also authorized FTPs for 2023-2027 for every men and girls, with the calendar to be printed within the upcoming days.
Amongst plenty of announcements, VVS Laxman and Daniel Vettori were confirmed as the unique participant representatives within the ICC Males’s Cricket Committee. Roger Harper, the dilapidated West Indies cricketer, would be the 2nd past participant consultant, becoming a member of Mahela Jayawardene within the committee.
The global cricket physique also authorized the assignment to elect the next Chair of the ICC that can perchance perchance additionally unbiased happen in November 2022. The election will most likely be made up our minds by a easy majority and the term of the elected Chair will dawdle for a two-year duration from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2024.
Meanwhile, the ICC got an update from the Afghanistan Working Team and as well got records on the scenario of girls’s cricket within the country.
It had appointed the working neighborhood in November 2021, naming Imran Khwaja (Chair), Ross McCollum, Lawson Naidoo and Ramiz Raja as the contributors to verify the house of the Afghanistan Cricket Board and cricket within the country. ICC’s representatives will meet officials of the ACB and the government within the upcoming weeks.