The five-day long yearly conference that the ICC holds will be held at Hong Kong this year. It will begin from Sunday and the main decision to be taken will be associated with the Decision Review System (DRS). For now, almost all the cricket board support the decision review system but there is

There may still be good news for the ICC Associate countries. According to a latest ICC announcement, there is a chance that the Associate countries may be allowed to play a qualifier to have a chance of qualifying for the World Cup 2015. Earlier, it had been announced that the 2015 edition of

Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt have said that the punishment meted out to them for the spot-fixing controversy was far too stringent. The two cricketers were banned from playing cricket for five years each apart from the five years that Mohammad Asif was handed over as well. While Amir was not given

The International Cricket Council chief executive committee (CEC) has set out a proposal for a World Test Championship. The Championship will be part of the Future Tour Programme set by the ICC and will run for a period of four years. At the end of the which, the top four teams will enter a

The ICC has, for the first time since the clause for the provisional suspension was brought into its code of conduct, banned the three Pakistani cricketers accused of match-fixing. The three include Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, all of whom were accused by a British tabloid of acce

The ICC has announced the World Cup schedule for the 2011 edition in Mumbai. According to this schedule, India will open the campaign against Bangladesh at Mirpur on the 19th of February. India will play the remaining five of its league stage games in India itself. Sri Lanka will have a new

Mathew Hayden has made a suggestion that should warm the cockles of the IPL hearts. Only recently drafted into the Cricket Australia board, Hayden has said that the ICC should consider stopping the Champions Trophy altogether and instead, create a two month long window for the Indian Premier L

There seems to be absolutely no let up in the pressure that the PCB seems to be mounting on the ICC. The latest salvo came in the form of a Pakistan Court issuing a stay order, until June 2, 2009, on the relocation of the World Cup 2011 secretariat from Lahore to Mumbai. Post the attack on the

Pakistan's aggressive stance, after it was decided that the country wouldn't host any of the 2011 World Cup matches, continued uninhibited as their Board President Ijaz Butt met with his counterpart and other officials in Sri Lanka. On offer were two proposals; Either the Asian Bloc agree to a

In an interesting development, the four Pakistani players who were suspended from participating in this year's IPL have planned to travel to South Africa to meet the tournament commissioner, Lalit Modi. The statement came from last year's purple cap holder Sohail Tanvir that the players would

Dead rubbers rarely kindle any of serious interest amongst players or the spectators for that matter but if you're a side that's as short of international match practice as is Pakistan, then every game that you play gains significance. Especially if that game happens to be against a

Simon Taufel, the man officiating at the all-important end during the over when Yuvraj Singh hit the ICC award winning six sixes, said it was "quite an experience" watching the Indian unleash his array of strokes. "It was quite an experience," Taufel told reporters last ni

Despite their historic 3-2 series-win against Sri Lanka, India has dropped to fifth place in the ICC ODI Championship table, released today. England replaced India at the fourth place and has second position within touching distance after winning three consecutive matches against South Af

Stung by the ICC's criticism of the Green Park Stadium's pitch here, the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association is on damage control mode and has already started preparing the track for the next international match at the venue, an India-England ODI in November. As a precautionary measure, the U

Sunil Gavaskar's controversial chairmanship of ICC's Cricket Committee came to a sudden end today when he announced his resignation from the post, weeks after he was asked to choose between his media commitments and his role with the games's world governing body. The former India captain co

Bangladesh go into their first of their three one day matches with South Africa looking to pick up the bits and pieces of what has been a miserable past four months for the Asian tigers. After being outplayed by New Zealand down under, more misery was heaped upon the Bangladeshis by a

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's two unbeaten centuries in the Chappell-Hadlee Series gave him his career best rating points of 832 even as he continued his domination at the top of the ICC rankings for the ODI batsmen, released today. Ponting not only ensured his team's 2-0 vi

Shaun Tait staged a comeback after an injury hiatus but Stuart Clark failed to make the cut as Australia today announced a 13-member squad for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy one day series starting in Adelaide on December 14. "After making a huge impact at the World Cup earlier

India may have been forced to settle for a draw in the second Test against Pakistan but the trio of Wasim Jaffer, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly can take heart from the fact that the Kolkata runfeast has pushed them up in the ICC Players Rankings. Thanks to his double century in the f

A convincing series triumph over Pakistan in the three-Test cricket series starting tomorrow would take India to third spot in the ICC Test championship table. A 3-0 or 2-0 series win over their arch rivals will lift Anil Kumble's team above South Africa to third place behind Austral

Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh was fined 20 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent at the umpire's decision of giving him out during the fifth and final cricket one-dayer against Pakistan here. The punishment was handed down by ICC match referee Roshan Mahanama following a hearing after

The International Cricket Council has warned the Indian Board that it must abide by its anti-racism code and act seriously on the incident of racist crowd behaviour against Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds in Vadodara. The BCCI has played down the incident only to irk the Australian tea

The ICC anti-corruption officer for the ongoing Test series between Pakistan and Australia is having trouble in keeping an eye on the team dressing rooms here after Wi-Fi wireless connections were installed in the National Stadium. The ICC anti-corruption regulations don't permit players or

With the tussle between the BCCI and the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) intensifying in the last few days, the International Cricket Council (ICC) today maintained that it was an "internal matter" of the Indian Board and there was no need for any interference at this stage. Th

The International Cricket Council today announced the names of nine umpires and three match referees, excluding those who officiated in the World Cup final, for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup to be held in South Africa. A total of 27 matches will be played in the September 11-24 tour

International Cricket Council (ICC) acting President Ray Mali today pledged his total commitment to the development of the game and said he would like to lead the world body as a team. "I am not going to lead it all by myself. I believe in leading ICC as a team and look forward to eve

The ICC Cricket Committee has expressed deep concern at the crammed international calendar, saying "the addition of many ODIs" to the Future Tour Programme was bound to have a "severe impact" on the standard of the game and the players' fitness. "The committee expr

South African President Thabo Mbeki today paid glowing tribute to late ICC President Percy Sonn, describing him as a "prolific administrator" who unified cricket. The 57-year-old Sonn passed away at a health clinic in Cape Town yesterday following complications after he underwent

International Cricket Council President Percy Sonn, who was critically ill for the past few days, died in Cape Town today. Sonn, 57, was admitted to the Durbanville clinic in Cape Town on Monday after developing complications from a colon surgery. A former president of the South African cr

The International Cricket Council officials have been forced to look into their constitution and regulations to find out who will automatically succeed President, Percy Sonn who has fallen seriously ill in Cape Town. According to South African newspapers his personal assistant George Hector