A concerned Sri Lanka skipper Kusal Mendis on Sunday hoped the ICC's suspension of the nation's cricket body will not affect the upcoming fixtures of the national team and the preparations for the men's U19 World Cup in Colombo early next year.
According to report, he will continue to serve as ICC Chairman 'to enable a smooth transition'.
South Africa Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie said he supported calls for a boycott of Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy in Pakistan next month.
New Zealand batter Glenn Phillips played down any talks of India getting an advantage by playing all their Champions Trophy matches in Dubai.
New Zealand Cricket has backed the proposed changes in the ICC's administrative structure, which would leave major decision-making in the hands of India, Australia and England, despite facing severe criticism from the country's players' association.
The majority of the International Cricket Council's Board members on Saturday voted in favour of restructured revenue sharing model including rollback of the Big 3 formula despite vehement opposition from Board of Control for Cricket in India's representative Vikram Limaye.
The 20 league matches will be split between Dubai and Sharjah with the semi-finals slated for Dubai and Sharjah on October 17 and 18 respectively. The final will be played in Dubai.
Lord Harry Woolf, the former judge whose review of the ICC's governance structure was rejected, has lambasted the proposed revamp of the body which would cede executive decision-making to India, Australia and England, calling the controversial plan a 'retrograde step'.
Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Sanjay Patel met with Cricket South Africa CEO Haroon Lorgat on Monday, on the sidelines of the ICC Chief Executives' meet in Dubai.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is not expected to bow to demands that the Zimbabwe national board be banned but the organisation is set to discuss a possible suspension for the country's limited-overs side. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is opposed to the Zimbabwe board being suspended.
The ICC said the Champions Trophy would be held from September 24 to October 5 next year.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) faced bankruptcy and isolation if it did not back the radical changes made by the International Cricket Council (ICC) last week, chairman Najam Sethi said on Monday.
International Cricket Council CEO Haroon Lorgat on Wednesday said the ICC has found a solution to the contentious whereabouts clause of the WADA Anti-doping code and a consensus would be reached on the matter by next week.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has rejected Pakistan's legal challenge against its decision to move 2011 World Cup matches out of the country for security reasons. In a statement on Thursday the sport's governing body said its executive board had not removed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as a joint host but had simply decided to stage the matches outside Pakistan.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering a proposal to relocate its headquarters back to London from Dubai, according to a report on Sunday.
With the current Pakistan tour marred by match-fixing allegations, a concerned ECB on Friday sought an assurance from the ICC that the game's world body does not have evidence which could result in charges or suspension of players prior to the conclusion of the series.
Associate nations' outrage over exclusion from the 2015 World Cup might have prompted the ICC to reconsider its decision but co-hosts New Zealand's Board has backed the trimming, saying a 10-team format works best from the organisers' point of view.
The ICC on Tuesday, the third day of its annual conference in Hong Kong, left gaps in the FTP for most nations during April and May for the eight-year period, 2012 to 20.
The ICC on Tuesday said the Women's T20 World Cup will be moved to the United Arab Emirates due to the prevailing unrest in Bangladesh
Brand IPL has become stronger than ever and doesn't see any threat from the growing number of T20 leagues globally, its chairman Arun Dhumal said on Saturday as he steered clear of the speculation swirling around a tournament backed by Saudi Arabia.
Former India captain Anil Kumble was on Thursday unanimously appointed chairman of ICC's Cricket Committee by the game's governing body, replacing West Indies great Clive Lloyd.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is all set to push the case of banned pacer Mohammad Amir to at least allow him to resume domestic cricket when the International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board meet in London from October 17 to 19.
Sumathipala is the longest serving ICC executive board member who has been handling the most important affairs in the international arena for Sri Lanka Cricket.
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) executive board will decide this week whether or not to shift September's Champions Trophy out of Pakistan because of security issues, the governing body said on Sunday. The decision was taken after concerns raised at an ICC security briefing in Dubai for representatives of the eight participating teams, the international players' association FICA and official broadcasters ESPN STAR Sport.
South Africa will stage this year's Champions Trophy one-day tournament in September and October, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Monday.
Mittal becomes the third business person from India in the history of ICC to be appointed on the ICC Executive Board.
The ICC has granted official status to the fund-raising match between Asian XI and Rest of the World XI.
Organisers of the multi-million dollar Twenty20 Champions League due to start in September will review its scheduling following objections by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body said in a statement. The India, Australia and South Africa cricket boards told the ICC executive board they would reconsider if they could change the dates for the September 29-October 8 event, after a meeting of top administrators discussed the issue, it said.
The head of Committee of Administrators (COA) Vinod Rai expressed his confidence that the Board of Control for Cricket in India has reached consensus after almost all the top cricket board chiefs have come to India in the last two weeks to discuss the proposed revenue model of International Cricket Council.
Under-fire N Srinivasan is all set to attend the International Cricket Council's executive board meeting in Dubai on April 9-10 as BCCI's "representative" despite being sidelined from the Board of Control for Cricket in India's affairs following a Supreme Court directive.
Pakistan's cricket authorities will brief the International Cricket Council about its security plan for the 2011 World Cup at the ICC Executive Board meeting in Dubai this weekend to retain its hosting rights for the mega event.
Pakistan have asked the ICC to hold an inquiry into umpire Darrell Hair's conduct before Inzamam-ul-Haq's disciplinary hearing
The standoff over the World Cup guarantee money will be the most important issue at the ICC's two-day meeting in Barbados.
Unhappy about Shoaib Malik's sacking as captain, Javed Miandad resigned as Director-General of the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday. Sources in the PCB confirmed that Miandad resigned but it was not clear if his resignation was accepted by the Board, as PCB chairman Ejaz Butt left for Perth on Wednesday morning to attend ICC's Executive Board meeting, starting Saturday.
The International Cricket Council was the target of cybercrime involving a wire transfer of a sizeable sum of money, roughly US$ 2.5 million.
Pakistan lodged six charges against umpire Darrell Hair in their complaint with the ICC.
The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Ijaz Butt, on Tuesday, claimed that its Indian counterpart (BCCI) has agreed upon an Indo-Pak charity match in the near future to raise funds for country's flood victims.
The International Cricket Council on Thursday dismissed Pakistan's claim that India was behind the shifting of their 2011 World Cup matches and said the decision could have been avoided if the security apprehensions in the strife-torn country were responsibly addressed during the ICC Executive Board meeting.
