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ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat. -Photo by AFP

KARACHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) Executive Board will hold its fourth and final scheduled meeting of the year at the ICC headquarters in Dubai on Monday, October 10, the ICC media department announced on Sunday.

“At the June meeting in Hong Kong, the ICC Executive Board had confirmed an Independent Governance Review and later appointed Lord Woolf of Barnes as chairman of the review panel. Lord Woolf, who will be supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers, will attend the meeting to provide a progress report,” ICC said in a statement.

Pakistan will be represented by Ijaz Butt, Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

“It is our clear ambition to be a well managed and leading global governing body. We are fortunate to have secured Lord Woolf to undertake this important review,” Haroon Lorgat, ICC Chief Executive, said.

The independent governance review was identified as one of the most important initiatives in the new Strategic Plan 2011-2015 that was adopted by the Board in April 2011.

The scope of the review is wide and includes clarifying the role and structure of the ICC and its committees to ensure that strategic goals are met effectively and that decision-making is made in the best interests of the game.

The ICC Executive Board will seek to finalise the format of the ICC event in 2013.

Currently the ICC Champions Trophy is scheduled to be held in England in June 2013 but the possibility of converting this to a Test Championship will need to be discussed.

With a stated zero tolerance approach to anti-corruption and anti-doping, the ICC Executive Board had in November 2010 required all Full Members to implement a domestic Anti-Corruption Code and strengthen anti-corruption measures at a domestic level by 1 April 2011.

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