All tournaments over the following cycle beginning in 2023 can be chosen by the board
Hosts for ICC events won’t be decided by an open bidding process, and as an alternative can be chosen by its board. In what quantities successfully to a u-turn, the ICC mentioned after a board assembly on Tuesday {that a} process for choosing hosts for all of its events within the subsequent rights cycle from 2023-2031 had been authorized and would start this month.
How that process will work was not revealed, however the determination to roll again from inviting bids from all members will please a quantity of boards who had been against it, together with the BCCI and ECB. All males’s, ladies’s and Under-19 events within the subsequent cycle can be chosen slightly than bid for. The process of deciding on hosts for males’s events within the cycle – which now consists of the return of the Champions Trophy and an expanded 50-over World Cup and T20 World Cup – will start this month, with all events allotted a bunch by September.
The internet hosting process for ladies’s and U-19 events will start in November and, the ICC mentioned, “will be an opportunity to engage with a wider range of Members including first-time hosts.”
That is the argument that has now been accepted by the ICC. “The revised approach to selecting hosts for our events will give us much more flexibility to grow the game and engage new fans,” the ICC’s performing chief govt Geoff Allardice mentioned. “There is a smaller pool of countries with the infrastructure needed to host our senior Men’s events which narrows the selection process. Additionally, many of our Members expressed interest in hosting Women’s and U19 events which gives us a great opportunity to stage events in established and emerging cricket nations.”
As properly as the disagreement over the process of discovering a bunch the boards of India, England and Australia had been against together with an additional occasion within the new eight-year cycle, arguing that extra consideration wanted to be paid to growing bilateral cricket. That additional occasion – within the guise of a return of the Champions Trophy – was reconfirmed at Tuesday’s assembly.
