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international competition program, a number of important decisions and
OPPOSITE: Cricket in the streets of Jakarta.
Perhaps no decision was celebrated more widely than that of Afghanistan and Ireland being awarded Full Membership status at the ICC Annual Conference in London. Years of hard work for both Members and the ICC was realised when both nations achieved Test status. Afghanistan who joined as a Member of the ICC in 2001 and Ireland in 1993 became the eleventh and twelfth Full Members of the ICC.
becoming Associate Members as part of broader governance changes which also saw an increase in the number of Members with voting rights. A process was also outlined for the incorporation of a new governing body in the United States, with the main objective of unifying the cricketing community, under a newly established governing body after the USA was expelled as a Member at the AGM.
More seminal decisions were made at the April 2018 Board Meetings in Kolkata which are of international cricket played by Associate Members. All Member women’s teams will be awarded T20I status on 1 July 2018 and Member men’s teams on 1 January 2019. The development of a global rankings table for all Members in men’s and women’s T20 will enhance this move across both men’s and women’s cricket, is part of the wider strategic aim of using the T20 format to globalize the game.
We continued our successful partnership programme with Full Members, focusing on improvements in high performance women’s cricket. The ICC Rookie Placement Programme included eight rising stars from the women’s experience in Australia’s Women’s Big Bash Cricket Australia and the WBBL embedded selected players in various WBBL elite cricket environments on short-term placements during
The commitment to hosting a conference in each region, each year, is designed to improve communication with our Members and provide an information exchange on development Jakarta have hosted regional conferences in 2018. of the 2017 conferences. The 2018 conferences have also provided an opportunity for Members to contribute directly to the development of the new Global Strategy for Cricket.
The ICC’s Member Services Programme continues to provide Members with a suite of initiatives designed to enhance their administrative and governance capacity. The Global Leaders Academy, which started last year with the Executive XI and Trailblazers, has been expanded in 2018 to reach more leaders than ever before with 77 delegates from 48 Members participating in Leadership Accelerators which are hosted at each regional conference.
Uganda hosted the inaugural ‘ICC 360’ programme which aims to undertake a comprehensive situational analysis of cricket in commercial and governance consultancies.
ICC Annual Report 2017-2018
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