ICC World T20 Set To Include 16 Teams From 2014


The International Cricket Council ICC Executive Board has approved plans to increase the number of participants in the (ICC) World Twenty20 to 16 from 2014.

Following the first expert board conference since the Woolf evaluation recommended considerable changes to its company govt, changes will be used.

The projects of  (ICC) Primary expert and Seat of the Panel will be separated following the 2014 Annually Meeting where the Seat of the Panel will generally alternative the present Vice-President.

The term of office for the non-voting Current will be one period and shift among the Affiliates while the Seat of the Panel can be employed for a maximum possible of two three-year circumstances and will also be a non-voting position.



Therefore, the nomination of the Bangladesh Cricket Panel and the Pakistan Cricket Panel for the vice-presidency between 2012 and 2014 has been deferrred.

The Panel confirmed three key recommendations in Twenty20 cricket. First of all, that 16 categories should get engaged in the ICC World Twenty20 event from 2014, that the event should continue as a mixed women and males event and that in an ICC World Twenty20 period, categories are permitted to execute a finish of 15 Twenty20 Internationals - a development of three.

"The need to management variety of cricket was considered when saying yes to allow the additional T20Is to be conducted in a period, (ICC) Main Expert Haroon Lorgat said.

Having considered the recommendations of the Woolf evaluation, the ICC will continue with discussions with regard to any further reorientating. They have already separated the Presidency/Chair of the Panel aspect and developed targeted funding for Affiliates and they will keep further discussions at the next meeting in May.

"Change in any kind is complex and it would be unlikely to predict immediate options, Lorgat said.

"This was the Board's first possibility to discuss the evaluation and it is encouraging that there is a wish to exercise complicated and significant govt problems."

The board also confirmed that the 2015 World Cup identifying event would be organized in New Zealand in 2014 and that the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 identifying competitors would be organized in the Combined Persia Emirates.