AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – West Indies Below-19 selectors might have to alter course after the game’s world governing physique, the ICC, introduced on Tuesday that Sri Lanka will not host subsequent 12 months’s Youth Cricket World Cup, and it’ll now be hosted in South Africa.
The unanimous choice of the ICC administrators was taken after the provisional suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) due to authorities interference within the group’s operations on November 10 when Minister of Sport Roshan Ranasinghe dismissed the incumbent administrators and changed them with an interim committee.
Ranasinghe clashed with SLC officers over claims of corruption and mismanagement over the previous 12 months, and the sacking of the incumbent administrators adopted the nationwide crew’s poor efficiency on the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 India that ended on Sunday.
SLC officers utilized for and acquired a short lived injunction for the incumbent administrators’ sacking to the Sri Lanka Court docket of Enchantment.
In line with an ICC media launch: “After listening to illustration from SLC, the ICC Board determined that Sri Lanka can proceed to compete internationally each in bilateral cricket and ICC occasions after being suspended lately for breaching its obligations as a member, specifically the requirement to handle its affairs autonomously and with out authorities interference.
“Nonetheless, funding to SLC might be managed by the ICC, and the ICC Board confirmed Sri Lanka will not host the ICC U19 Males’s Cricket World Cup 2024, which is able to now be held in South Africa.”
West Indies Below-19s are one of many 16 groups at present getting ready for the Youth World Cup, the place they’re drawn in Group B alongside England, Scotland, and new hosts South Africa for the event initially scheduled to be performed from January 13 to February 4.
The aspect returned from a visit in August-September to Colombo that included three Youth One-day Internationals and two Youth Exams to acclimate to the situations forward of the event.
The selectors, CWI, and crew officers might now have to attract up new plans with South Africa internet hosting and media studies indicating that the cities of Benoni, Potchefstroom, Kimberley, and Bloemfontein will stage the matches.
West Indies Below-19s have gained the event solely as soon as beneath the management of Shimron Hetmyer and the steerage of England-born coach Graeme West seven years in the past in Bangladesh.
The squad included Alzarri Joseph, Keemo Paul, Chemar Holder, and Keacy Carty, and so they toppled five-time winners India Below-19s, whose crew had gamers corresponding to Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan, and Washington Sundar.
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