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changes to the cricket structure, and decisions taken to aid the global development of the game.
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Brendan Taylor plays a shot during the second day of the day-night Test cricket match between South Africa and Park Cricket Ground.
We have welcomed two new Test nations in Afghanistan and Ireland, which are landmark decisions for the Test match game. The support for and interest in Ireland’s inaugural Test against Pakistan was exceptional and encouraging. Bengaluru from 14-18 June.
A new Future Tours Programme was agreed and includes an ICC World Test Championship, which will bring greater context to that format of the game. The Championship will run in two 2021 and 2023.
opportunity to trial a four-day Test, an innovation that will also take place at Lord’s in 2019 involving England and Ireland.
league for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup following their victory in the ICC World Cricket League Championship late last year. Scotland and the United Arab Emirates retained their ODI status latest nation to be conferred with ODI status after
In addition, it was agreed to award T20 International status to men’s and women’s teams from all member countries and to establish a global rankings table for men’s and women’s T20 teams. All countries who have played a threshold number of matches will receive a world ranking. This is a decision which will open up the game and it is indicative of the desire to position T20 as the format to globalise cricket.
ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Australia in more to follow in the coming months.
An additional 16-team ICC Men’s World Twenty20 event will take place in 2021 to replace the eight- team ICC Champions Trophy.
– based on a combination of ranking and performance – is now established across the men’s and women’s games.
The ICC Women’s Championship has helped to improve standards of play and competitive balance in the women’s game, while also generating a lot of interest. The ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 was a spectacular success and a sign that the women’s game is moving in a positive direction.
The Decision Review System is embedded within the game and increasingly considered part of cricket’s mainstream, thanks to its use in all and at the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017.
for 2018-19 which shows the quality of the job that they currently do. In 2017-18, 93.5 per cent of on- decisions were correct after the use of DRS.
It has been especially pleasing to see the gradual increase in the amount of international cricket played in Pakistan. The T20I matches involving an ICC World XI, Sri Lanka and the Windies have been hugely positive developments for the game and revival of international cricket in one of the ICC’s key Members.
were excellent and there was notable support for the home team, who, unfortunately for them,
On a less positive note, the ball-tampering incident in Cape Town in March during Australia’s Test series against South Africa was a stain on the game and prompted a review of the ICC Code of Conduct at the annual ICC Cricket Committee meeting.
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