Cricket: Vaughan irked by Cup uncertainty

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket Chief Justin Vaughan supports the idea of ten-team 2015 World Cup format while urging the International Cricket Council (ICC) should finally reach a swift decision on the terms according to which sides will qualify.

“As the hosts of that competition, it is unhelpful to have renewed uncertainty over the format,” said Vaughan. Criticism over the initial exclusion of Associate nations in favour of the game’s ten Full Member countries prompted the ICC Executive Board to reconsider the decision. ICC President Sharad Pawar announced that a renewed discussion of the qualification process will take place in June.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 25^th, 2011.