ICC continues to amaze

Sun, Sep 29, '13 by TONY BECCA

The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently held one of its Cricket Executives Committee meetings in Dubai, and once again it was mostly a grand waste of time.

The meeting, according to reports, dealt with a few things, including the number of balls to be used in each innings of an ODI match and the start of the long announced World Test Championship.

The ICC, after listening to arguments on the pros and cons of it, ruled that it will retain the use of two balls per innings in an ODI match, but, in the case of a match reduced to 25 overs or less at the start, one ball would be used.

And in the case of the Test championship, the ICC announced that it would start the process with the Pakistan-South Africa series in Dubai in October.