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ICC delegation to brief teams on Champions Trophy security

August 13, 2008 17:21 IST
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International Cricket Council (ICC) representatives will travel to four participating nations to allay safety fears over travelling to Pakistan for next month's Champions Trophy, it said on Wednesday.

The delegations would travel to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and England, who all have serious reservations over playing in Pakistan for the one-day event starting on September 12, and brief them on the arrangements, the ICC statement said.

Faced with a possible boycott, the sport's governing body formed a task force that visited Pakistan on Tuesday to assess arrangements in the country, which has witnessed a spate of suicide bombings over the past several months.

It removed Rawalpindi as a venue, retaining only Lahore and Karachi.

ICC chief Haroon Lorgat will head the group to England while the team to Australia and New Zealand will include Tim May, chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) and Pakistan's Australian coach Geoff Lawson.

"Our desire is to ensure that every stakeholder is content with arrangements and is comfortable with the ICC Champions Trophy taking place in Pakistan," ICC president David Morgan said.

The ICC would receive the feedback on August 20 to further fine tune arrangements, it added.

"We are committed to a safe and secure event in Pakistan," Morgan said. "We believe these visits and the feedback we get from them will play a major role in us achieving those ends."

Australia and New Zealand players were advised by their players' associations last month not to travel to Pakistan, after the South African players' body criticised the ICC decision not to move the tournament out of Pakistan.

Besides the hosts, West Indies, India and Sri Lanka are the other teams taking part in a tournament regarded second only in importance to the World Cup.

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