Super-sub a superb flop, Cricket Committee to decide powerplay fate

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Dubai, Mar 21 (UNI) The ICC Board has finally ended its failed super-sub trial in one-dayers and will refer the powerplay to its Cricket Committee for further consideration.

On the first day of its Executive Board meeting here yesterday, the ICC Board ended the trial of ODI playing condition, adopted a new pitch-monitoring process, endorsed an anti-doping policy and received a report from the Chairman of the Interim Committee of Zimbabwe Cricket.

It also confirmed the minimum number of matches required for a team to be ranked on the official LG ICC ODI Championship table and agreed to revert to full recognition of the administration of the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) subject to certain conditions.

The Board endorsed the adoption of an ICC Anti-Doping Policy for all major ICC events. The proposed policy complies with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code and its adoption at this year's ICC Annual Conference will formalise the ICC's commitment to drugs-free sport.

ICC President Ehsan Mani said this was an important step for the sport.

''While there have been anti-doping programmes at all of the ICC's recent major events, these have been formulated on an event-by-event basis and have contained variations from the WADA Code,'' he said.

''Once it has been approved by the Annual Conference in July, this new WADA-compliant policy will become mandatory for all major ICC events beginning with this year's ICC Champions Trophy in India,'' he added.

The Board has also proposed the first formal pitch-monitoring process for international cricket. This process, which has been adopted with immediate effect, includes potential sanctions ranging from a formal warning to a Member board fine or even suspension of international status for venues that produce substandard pitches.

The process is be based on the initial report of the Emirates Elite Panel Referee at the ground followed by a review conducted by the ICC General Manager - Cricket, David Richardson, and the Chief Match Referee, Ranjan Madugalle -- or the Chairman of the Cricket Committee Sunil Gavaskar if the Chief Referee produced the initial report.

The Board also approved a recommendation that the minimum number of matches needed to be played by a side to qualify for a ranking on the LG ICC ODI Championship table should be eight matches.

This means that Kenya has now played sufficient matches in the qualifying period. The two matches it played in the ICC Champions Trophy 2004 have a 50 per cent weighting while its recent four matches against Zimbabwe and the opening two matches of its series against Bangladesh take it to the eight-match threshold.

The ICC Board agreed to revert to full recognition of the administration of the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) subject to certain conditions. These conditions include the conducting of independently-monitored elections before November 30, according to an ICC release here.

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