Lord's to host WTC finals of 2023 and 2025

The Lord's Cricket Ground has been affirmed as the host for the ICC World Test Championship finals in 2023 and 2025, the ICC affirmed on Tuesday (July 26), reporting the choice on the last day of its yearly meeting in Birmingham. Master's was likewise named the setting at first for the last of the debut release of the World Test Championship (2019-2021) preceding it was moved to Southampton. Among a few declarations, VVS Laxman and Daniel Vettori were affirmed as the ongoing player delegates in the ICC Men's Cricket Committee. Roger Harper, the previous West Indies cricketer, will be the second past player delegate, joining Mahela Jayawardene in the council. The FTPs for 2023-2027 for all kinds of people were supported by the ICC board, with the schedule to be distributed before long. In the interim, the ICC invited Cambodia, Cote D'Ivoire and Uzbekistan as its most current individuals, allowing them the Associate Membership status. Cambodia and Uzbekistan become the 24th and 25th individuals from the Asian division while Cote D'Ivoire has turned into the 21st part from Africa. The most recent augmentations have extended ICC's enrollment base to 108, with 96 of them being partners. The ICC likewise ended Cricket Russia's participation, which has been suspended at the 2021 Annual General Meeting "because of proceeded resistance since July 2019". The ICC likewise chose to concede Ukraine's application for participation "until cricket movement can securely continue inside the country". The ICC got an update from the Afghanistan Working Group and furthermore got data on the circumstance of ladies' cricket in the country. The ICC had delegated the functioning gathering in November 2021, naming Imran Khwaja (Chair), Ross McCollum, Lawson Naidoo and Ramiz Raja as the individuals to audit the situation with the Afghanistan Cricket Board and cricket in the country. ICC's delegates will meet authorities of the ACB and the public authority before long.