October 11, 2001	Thursday	Rajab 23, 1422

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: A meeting of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) due to be held in Kuala Lumpur later this month has been rescheduled for November and will now take place in Sharjah.

Zakir Hussain Syed, secretary of the ACC told Dawn that the meeting is now set for Nov 2-3 and had been moved from Kuala Lumpur after some delegates requested for a change of venue.

The meeting, originally scheduled for Lahore on Oct 20 and 21, was shifted out of Pakistan in the aftermath of the terrorists strikes in the United States.

The ACC meeting will consist of two parts with the first session comprising the adjourned Annual General Meeting in London on June 20 approving the audited statement of accounts and budget.

The second part, which will be the special general meeting, will discuss the situation arising following India’s withdrawal from the Asian Test Championship and measures to avoid this happening in future.

India had refused to travel to Lahore for a match of that championship against Pakistan which was to start late last month, a decision that resulted in the host board suffering heavy losses. The Indians had also said ‘no’ to a Test series in Pakistan last December.

The Sharjah meeting, to be chaired by Lt. Gen Tauqir Zia, the president of ACC, will also decide on a permanent structure of governance on the pattern of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

Also on the agenda is the setting up of an ACC secretariat either in UAE, Nepal or Malaysia.

Meanwhile, the ICC meeting which was to precede the ACC moot will be held as planned in Kuala Lumpur between Oct 15 and 19. This meeting too initially had been set for Lahore.