BCCI President Sharad Pawar is likely to be named as chairman of the 2011 World Cup organising committee when it is constituted formally next month.
KARACHI: Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) President Sharad Pawar is likely to be named as chairman of the 2011 World Cup organising committee when it is constituted formally next month.
The board officials of the four Asian Test playing nations - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - are to meet in summer of resort of Bhurban in Pakistan from June 17 to 19 to constitute the committee.
It is for the first time that all the four Asian test playing nations would be hosting the World Cup.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said that they were yet to receive a formal itinerary from the BCCI for the team's tour of India later this year to play three Tests and six or seven one-day internationals.
"They will now inform us off the venues and dates they want us to play on for final approval," a PCB official said.
Pakistan is due to tour India from early November but sources said it has already requested the Indian board to not schedule matches at venues that require a lot of travelling as was the case on the 2005 tour.
The official said Pakistan was expecting that its team would play majority of its matches at big venues.
He said more deliberations on the make up of the itinerary was likely to be held on the sidelines of the joint World Cup committee meeting in Bhurban.
"When the Indians are here obviously we will have discussions with them on the proposed venues and dates for the tour and perhaps even on the number of one-dayers to be included in the memorandum of understanding for the tour," he said.
Pakistani players and officials had complained off fatigue and extensive travelling on their 2005 tour which the Indian board defended as a necessary evil as it had to rotate international matches among its member associations and states.
The issue of having off-shore matches between Pakistan and India on a regular basis apart from the ICC future tours program calendar will also come up for talks.
Pakistan has already announced that it would be hosting the next Asia Cup from April 29, 2008 saying that India had confirmed its participation.
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