The Future Tours Programme (FTP) for 2019-2023 may have already been agreed upon by the ICC full members, but the document that binds the Test-playing nations to adhere to the programme will be submitted to the ICC at its quarterly meeting in Kolkata on April 25 and 26.
“The Chief Executives meeting did not take place in Dubai; they will meet in Kolkata, consider it again and submit it to the ICC,” said an official.
Although the ICC does not have a say in the FTP planning, it comes into the picture because the nine-team Test league and 13-team ODI league is set to start in 2019 and 2020.
A BCCI official said the FTP was a finished product and hence the BCCI could proceed with the home bilateral series media rights tender for 2018-23 well before April.
The BCCI’s present agreement with Star India will end in March.
In the matter of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) seeking $70 million compensation from the BCCI for not playing bilateral series in 2014 and 2015, the process of forming the Disputes Resolution Committee (DRC) has begun.
The BCCI has nominated Ms. Annabel Pennefather (an independent lawyer member among five in the ICC DRC) as its representative.
The ICC Board has extended the services of Michael Beloff (DRC chairman) for a three-year period from June 2018. Sources said either Beloff would choose to be chairman of the three-member panel to deal with PCB’s complaint, or he may nominate another person from the DRC.
