The meeting called by Pawar, is likely to clear the air over the final of 2011 World Cup which was decided to be held in India.
It is the first formal meeting of the sub-continent boards
A meeting of the World Cup hosts of the sub-continent will be held in New Delhi on Monday. The meeting — the first formal gathering of the Boards of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh — called by the Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sharad Pawar, is expected to clear the air over the final of the 2011 World Cup which was earlier decided by the four boards to be held in India. The four sub-continental Boards, led by the BCCI, won the right to host the World Cup in April this year.
The BCCI president’s initiative comes after new Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Dr Naseem Ashraf’s recent remarks expressing ignorance over the ‘final’ decision. The PCB delegation will be led by Ashraf himself.
At an informal meeting between the four Boards in London earlier this year it was decided that India will host the final with Pakistan and Sri Lanka getting the two semifinals. The opening ceremony was awarded to Bangladesh.
But Ashraf, who has taken over the reins of the PCB recently, has said that he is not aware of any such decisions. The PCB chief’s comments, it is believed, are pressure tactics to bargain for some important games for Pakistan which was allotted 14 matches of the total 51 matches of the championship. India were to host 22 matches with nine for Sri Lanka and six for Bangladesh.
Duleep Mendis of Cricket Sri Lanka and Mahbubul Anam of Bangladesh Cricket Board will be at the meeting which will be attended among others by Niranjan Shah, Ratnakar Shetty, Lalit Modi and Delhi District Cricket Association president Arun Jaitley. The meeting will be presided over by Pawar. Although no formal agenda has been set for the meeting, a BCCI source said the co-hosts are expected to decide with finality about the final of the World Cup.
“The meeting was called in view of the change of guards in Pakistan and Bangladesh after we won the big match,” said Niranjan Shah. “We’ll try to create a mechanism for the conduct of the championship,” Shetty told DNA.
Meanwhile, BCCI officials said they are yet to decide which Indian city will host the final. “There is no formal decision yet by the Board that the final will be held in New Delhi,” Shah said.
The BCCI had originally planned to host the final at a world class stadium that it wanted to build in the national capital. But the work for the stadium is yet to start.
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