ICC to issue role model constitutions
Move to help boards meet requirement of ending government interference.
KARACHI:
In a bid to speed up the process of revising the constitutions of its member boards to prevent any government interference in cricketing matters, the International Cricket Council (ICC) will soon be issuing role model constitutions.
The ICC has decided to prepare the role model constitution after some member boards reported problems implementing the governing body’s order to curtail government interference in the way cricket is run in each country.
The ICC has set June 2012 as the deadline to comply with its order, but has kept June 2013 as the mandatory deadline for enforcing the new constitutions.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said that the board has informed the ICC that it may not be possible for Pakistan to enforce the new constitution this year.
“There hasn’t been much progress because when the ICC took its decision it was time for Ijaz Butt to leave and Zaka Ashraf replaced him as the PCB chief,” said the official. “Talks with the government have also not been decisive.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2012.
In a bid to speed up the process of revising the constitutions of its member boards to prevent any government interference in cricketing matters, the International Cricket Council (ICC) will soon be issuing role model constitutions.
The ICC has decided to prepare the role model constitution after some member boards reported problems implementing the governing body’s order to curtail government interference in the way cricket is run in each country.
The ICC has set June 2012 as the deadline to comply with its order, but has kept June 2013 as the mandatory deadline for enforcing the new constitutions.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said that the board has informed the ICC that it may not be possible for Pakistan to enforce the new constitution this year.
“There hasn’t been much progress because when the ICC took its decision it was time for Ijaz Butt to leave and Zaka Ashraf replaced him as the PCB chief,” said the official. “Talks with the government have also not been decisive.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2012.