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ICC focuses on cleaning up the game
Posted: Sunday June 25, 2000 06:49 PM
LONDON (AP) -- The executive members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) traveled Saturday to Paris for a two-day meeting with match-fixing high on the weekend agenda. The executive committee will closely study progress reports on the Pakistan and South Africa match-fixing inquiries. When the delegates return to London on Monday they will discuss the promotion of Bangladesh as a full-member test nation. It is understood that some member countries, led by England, are suspicious of allowing a power-bloc of four Asian nations to be formed. They are also doubtful of the standard of cricket that is played in what used to be East Pakistan. Bangladesh currently enjoys the status of a full one-day nation and if voted in will become the 10th test-playing nation. The last country to be admitted was Zimbabwe in 1991. Also up for debate is the television rights for the next two World Cups -- 2003 in South Africa and the West Indies in 2007. The topic of a World Cup tournament every two years proposed by Australia is on the agenda, too. A resolution will be offered that the 2003 World Cup will be comprised of the 11 countries with one-day international status -- Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe -- plus the three top countries from the 2001 ICC Trophy.
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