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28-Apr-2009 08:38:00 GMT
ICC World Cup 2011

Haroon Lorgat to Attend 2011 World Cup Meeting

Mumbai: International Cricket Council's Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat will attend the meeting of the Central Organising Committee of the 2011 World Cup, headed by former Cricket Board President Sharad Pawar.

Lorgat is also scheduled to address a press conference at the end of the meeting, the Cricket Board announced on Monday.

The meeting has been convened to revamp the Organising Committee's structure as Pakistan are no longer the co-hosts of the mega event following the decision of the ICC, taken earlier this month, to snatch away its hosting rights due to security concerns.

"The Committee will be reconstituted and the new secretariat chosen at the meeting," said BCCI sources.

When the Organising Committee was formed two years ago, Pakistan Cricket Board's representative was chosen as its convenor. The secretariat was also to be situated at Lahore with Pakistan being one of the co-hosts then.

But the ICC's Executive Board decided on April 17 to shift the World Cup matches away from that country in the aftermath of the March 3 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore.

The ICC's decision has left India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as the three sub-continental co-hosts of the mega event.

On Wednesday, the BCCI's all-powerful Working Committee will meet for a one-day sitting at its headquarters.

"This is a routine meeting to discuss and ratify the reports and decisions taken by the various sub-committees of the Board over the last three or four months," BCCI sources said.

The meeting has been convened during the conduct of the IPL in South Africa and is expected to be attended by most of the BCCI's bigwigs.


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