New Delhi: After Chief Executive of the International Cricket Council Malcolm Speed said the 2011 World Cup may be pruned down to keep the event abuzz, officials from the sub-continent are set to take on the game's governing body, asking them not to do so.
Officials from the sub-continent - where the next World Cup is going to be staged - will meet at Bhurban in Pakistan next month to initiate the matter, and are likely to not agree with Speed, a report in Pakistani daily The News quoted PCB sources as saying.
The recently concluded 2007 World Cup in the West Indies drew sharp criticism for being too long (six weeks), following which Speed had said that the ICC will consider shortening the next edition.
The Asian nations have concurred that the four hosts - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - may incur huge financial losses should the World Cup be cut short.
''The ICC may be thinking about reducing the World Cup to five or six weeks but the Asian officials would not agree if any such idea does surface,'' the newspaper said.
Asian officials are likely to meet to take up the matter on June 17-19, and will hold nothing back in conveying their message to the ICC.
Also to be decided in the meeting is the chairman of the 2011 World Cup's Organising Committee, for which BCCI President Sharad Pawar is billed as the top contender. Former Pakistan Test cricketer Saleem Altaf has already been appointed as the Executive Director of the committee.
(With inputs from UNI)
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