Cricket: ACC to hold board meeting in Bahrain – Gulf Digital News

Cricket: ACC to hold board meeting in Bahrain – Gulf Digital News

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) will hold an executive board meeting in Bahrain for the first time ever on February 4.

Foremost on the agenda for the meeting, requested by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Najam Sethi, will be the resolution of a dispute between Pakistan and India over the 2023 Asia Cup, scheduled for September.

The hosting rights for the tournament were awarded to Pakistan in late 2021 by the ACC’s executive board but Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah, who is also the ACC president, said last October that India would not participate in the competition unless it was held at a neutral venue, leading to an impasse between the two boards.

Following his meetings with ACC officials in Dubai earlier this month, Sethi announced last week that his request for an emergency meeting to resolve the issue was accepted by the ACC executive board which chose Bahrain as the venue.

The ACC, formed in 1983, consists of five ‘full member’ nations – those with full International Cricket Council (ICC) status: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – and 20 countries with ‘associate’ ACC status, including Bahrain.

“This is a very important milestone for the kingdom,” Bahrain