NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on Monday, in its Special General Meeting, confirmed that India will be hosting the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2023 and the ICC Champions Trophy in 2021.
This is the first time India would be hosting an ODI World Cup on its own. India has previously co-hosted ODI World Cup on three occasions in the year 1987, 1996 and 2011. India has won the tournament twice (1983 and 2011) since its inception in 1975.
A working group, comprising all three office-bearers, will take a final call on this.
“The ICC Champions Trophy and Cricket World Cup, both of which will be hosted by India in 2021 and 2023 respectively,” BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary told media persons.
Chaudhary informed the media that four key points were under discussion at the SGM, namely a possible settlement with the erstwhile Kochi Tuskers IPL franchise, revocation of the Rajasthan Cricket Association suspension, matters relating to the ICC Future Tours Programme and finally matters arising out of the the stand taken by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) in relation to the BCCI.
At the SGM, the members unanimously decided to continue its legal fight against the defunct Kochi Tuskers, which has won a compensation claim against the BCCI.
“An arbitration was awarded to Kochi, which was challenged by BCCI. However, we had interaction with the erstwhile franchise on whether we could come to an out of court settlement.
“We then put the matter to our legal team. We have decided we must not settle this out of court. We will continue with legal procedure,” Chaudhary said.
The conditional revocation of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) happened on expected lines with a rider given to them that former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, who is under a life ban from the BCCI, won’t come back in the association in any capacity.
Also, the members were apprised of the letters written by the Sports Ministry and NADA about having BCCI as a signatory. The house was unanimous that there was no need to come under NADA fold despite the body’s active demand to carry out dope tests of the cricketers.
“We have told them that we have a robust system in place and we are already WADA compliant. Also, our testing is done at the same NDTL lab where samples collected by NADA is tested,” he said.
