ICC agrees changes to playing conditions

Although the ICC executive has to reconvene on Friday to continue discussions over Zimbabwe's future, other meetings have been more productive, and among the issues discussed and decided upon were the following: Future Tours Programme post-2012 The current FTP concludes in May 2012. The Cricket Executive Committee (CEC) and the ICC board considered the future landscape of the game at international level and both groups received a presentation on the concept of an alternative structure to bilateral tours including an enhanced Test championship. The key considerations for both the board and the CEC were and are: All three formats of international cricket should be protected and promoted with Test cricket identified as the pinnacle of the sport The 'icon' Test series must be protected ICC should look at ways of taking greater... [read full story]