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12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 1st Match, Group B - South Africa v Sri Lanka

12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 2nd Match, Group A - Pakistan v West Indies

07:30 GMT, 09:30 local 3rd Match, Group B - South Africa v New Zealand

12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 4th Match, Group B - England v Sri Lanka

07:30 GMT, 09:30 local 5th Match, Group A - Australia v West Indies

12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 6th Match, Group A - India v Pakistan

07:30 GMT, 09:30 local 7th Match, Group B - New Zealand v Sri Lanka

12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 8th Match, Group B - South Africa v England

12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 9th Match, Group A - India v Australia

12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 10th Match, Group B - England v New Zealand

07:30 GMT, 09:30 local 11th Match, Group A - Pakistan v Australia

12:30 GMT, 14:30 local 12th Match, Group A - India v West Indies

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ICC is a puppet organization which has forgotten the ethics of cricket and sports. ICC is just folllowing the Indian plans due to money. India is the biggest source of revenue for ICC. There are other memebers of ICC but they dont have say in this organization. All the memebers have to follow the dictation and plans of ICC which are formulated by Indian cricket board. It is compulsory for all the teams to spare the players for IPL (Indian Premier League) but if any big event of cricket like world cup or champions trophy schedule contradict with Indian cricket schedule then ICC must change the dates of events for India to be available for cricket. The teams has been seen playing international cricket without their key players because players busy in playing IPL. IPL dates are fixed, there cannot be any change. All the international cricket teams should formulate their schedules in such a way that IPL is not disturbed and make sure the players representing from those countries are free from national duty. Is this cricket? Is this gentleman game any more? I was browsing Yahoo answers and find the following question

Is ICC a puppet of BCCI?

Answers - Not exactly. BCCI is powerful, and ICC have to sway according to BCCI’s interests. I will not use puppet, I’ll say ICC is spineless. Appears to be so. Otherwise, why should they ban ICL players ? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080929073715AAB7rED There are many incidents where ICC is totally biased. I would like to quote some with sources here. THE International Cricket Council, one might have expected, sent out a long-winded and self-righteous justification for their action in ejecting West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor from the Test series between Australia and India. Read More at http://allafrica.com/stories/200801110019.html ICC is Hypocrate Call it BCCI’s hypocrisy or ICC’s duplicity; it doesn’t matter, for many believe BCCI controls the ICC, no matter what reasons are given to them to prove the stated ‘fact’ wrong Read More at http://www.zeenews.com/blog/21/blog139.html There are many incident recently where ICC status is questionable. There is a preferential treatment towards some members while some members are being totally ignored. The game of gentlemen is in the hands of wrong people. If the affairs of ICC will continue like this then the cricket in this planet will become the most disputed word. I am a cricket lover, intention of writing this article is purely base on sending message to ICC about the feelings of cricket lovers around the world. The former cricket players should come up to save the world of cricket.

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ICC has decided not to allocate any match of comming cricket world cup in Pakistan venues or PCB suggested UAE venue. According to ICC the world cup is for Indopak and the other venues not in sub continent will be out of the scope the cricket world cup 2010, while Pakistan is suffering from terrorism and it is wise not to consider Pakistan venues as world cup.

I think this is a bad news for cricket lovers in pakistan. PCB has alread sued ICC of bias decision and the case is already in the court of sports justice. However ICC has pledge not to corner Paksitan and the rights of Pakistan as co host will be remain there along with other assistance. The agreed financial benefits will be paid to Pakistan.

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The legal claims initiated last week by the PCB against shifting out from Pakistan of the 2011 World Cup matches scheduled to be held in that country was rejected by ICC.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) legal challenge against the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to move the 2011 World Cup matches out of the country due to security reasons was rejected by the governing body on Thursday.

In a statement, Governing body said its executive board had not removed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as a joint host but had simply decided to stage the matches outside Pakistan.

Pakistan had been scheduled to stage the event with India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh but the ICC opted to redistribute the matches among the other three host nations after Sri Lankan team attack.

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Morgan was there in Johannesburg as officials from the rebel ICL, the ICC and the Board of Control for Cricket in India tried to thrash out a deal.

ICL chiefs are keen to acquire ‘unofficial cricket’ status - a new idea introduced by the ICC for tournaments which are not run by a country’s home board but are approved.

However, after a three-hour meeting in South Africa a breakthrough could not be found between all parties, and a decision will now be left to the ICC in April.

“I am grateful to all parties for coming together with the best of intentions and the discussions took place in a friendly and cordial manner but, unfortunately, we were not able to come to a successful conclusion in our discussions,” said Morgan.

“The ICL’s application for approval as unofficial cricket will now go before the ICC board at its April meeting in Dubai.

“Given the discussions took place without prejudice, no further comment will be made at this time.”

The ICL, bankrolled by television giants Zee, has been in a bitter dispute with the BCCI, who stages the approved Indian Premier League.

Several countries have banned their players from playing international cricket if they turned out for the ICL - as they try to avoid any big-name players making an appearance.

Previous talks in October also broke down and Zee has previously threatened to get the courts involved to resolve the dispute.

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 Australian vice captain Adam Gilchrist believes Australias leading players will abide by the advice of security experts on whether they should go to Pakistan for next months Champions Trophy. I was speaking to a couple of players yesterday.

 Theres a lot of uncertainty and there always seems to be these big decisions to be made a leading daily quoted Gilchrist as saying. It is an important time for cricket, everyone has identified that players and administrators but as was the case throughout my career you just take the advice of the experts in the security field he added. An International Cricket Council task force led by ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat met senior Australian cricket identities in Melbourne last Friday to brief them on the latest security measures for the tournament and Sri Lanka has been suggested as an alternative host for the Champions Trophy CA officials said they had no consideration of an alternative venue at this stage and were awaiting further feedback from the ICC. Pakistan officials remain confident the tournament will go ahead.

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Sachin Tendulkar slipped a rung to 14th but continued to be the highest ranked Indian in the ICC Test rankings for batsmen while his skipper Anil Kumble was the best-placed Indian bowler in the latest list and among the other Indians in the batting chart former skipper Rahul Dravid and opener Virender Sehwag remained steady at 15^th and 18^th respectively. However Sourav Ganguly was down a spot to 20th. In the bowling list, the next best placed Indian after Kumble is Zaheer Khan at the 14^th which he shares with controversial Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif further down the list, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh climbed a rung to 17^th. Meanwhile Ashwell Prince and AB de Villiers have stormed into the top 20 among batsmen after outstanding performances against England in the second Test which ended on Monday. Prince has climbed eight places to 13^th spot in the rankings and now has 12^th placed Graeme Smith firmly in his sights while de Villiers has jumped six places to 19^th position and the batting list is still headed by Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka ahead of the West Indies` Shivnarine Chanderpaul Mike Hussey of Australia and his captain Ricky Ponting, along with Mohammad Yousuf of Pakistan the latter two sharing fourth place.

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The BCCI will oppose Zimbabwes expulsion from the international cricket council at the ICC annual meeting in Dubai next week, a decision that would put the Indian board on collision course with its counterparts in South Africa and England. A reputed British daily quoted an unnamed BCCI official as saying that the Indian board “was still behind Zimbabwe and would not support any motion to throw them out of the ICC at the meeting on Wednesday. Earlier Cricket South Africa was the first to suspend its bilateral ties with Zimbabwe. England and Wales Cricket Board ECB followed suit by scrapping a proposed tour by Zimbabwe next year. The ECB wants to strip Zimbabwe of ODI status which would bar the African nation from appearing at the World Twenty20 championship in England next year. ECB fears that Zimbabwes presence would almost certainly prevent the tournament from going ahead as the British government is unlikely to issue visas for Zimbabwean cricketers. In that case ICC would be forced to strip England of the lucarative competition and award it to the back-up venue Canada. The Indian board were steadfast in their refusal to back moves to isolate Zimbabwe from the world game leaving the England and Wales Cricket Board fighting a delicate political game ahead the report in the newspaper said. ECB chairman Giles Clarke met his Indian counterpart Sharad Pawar who was at the Lords to attend the commemoration dinner of indias 1983 world cup final victory and the BCCI chief had described their discussions on Zimbabwe as detailed on every aspect. David Morgan who will become ICC Chief at the end of the ICC meeting while supporting action against Zimbabwe had acknowledged that Indias stand would be vital on the issue. It will be a very difficult discussion. India and Zimbabwe are close and Indias position is crucial in all this for sure the Englishman had said.

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Pakistan was given a vote of confidence Tuesday by international cricket bosses as it gears up to host the Champions Trophy later this year. International Cricket Council ICC president Ray Mali said he was confident Pakistan would put on a good tournament as the country had experience of running such events in the past and the tournament from September 11-28 involves all the major cricketing powers Australia- South Africa- India- England- Pakistan- New Zealand- Sri Lanka and the West Indies pakistan also host the 6 nation Asia Cup involving defending champions Sri Lanka- India- Pakistan- Bangladesh- Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates from June 24 to July 6. Mali who arrived with other ICC officials for Wednesdays launch of the biennial Champions Trophy said the Asia Cup will give Pakistan an opportunity to rehearse for the Champions Trophy. Mali and other ICC officials held talks with the Pakistan Cricket Board PCB over preparations for the event. PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf gave assurances on security. The ICC is launching the event in Lahore on Wednesday and that is an ample proof that there are no problems and we have made foolproof security arrangements for the event said Ashraf. it will be the first time that Pakistan has staged a major sporting event since hosting a quadrangular tournament in 1997. Pakistan also hosted some matches of the 1996 World Cup with India and Sri Lanka. Australia put off their March April tour to the trouble hit country this year over security fears.

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