The Int'l Cricket Council announced a 20% "increase in prize money for next year’s World Cup, to be held in Australia and New Zealand," according to K.R. Nayar of GULF NEWS. The prize money is hence raised from 2011 World Cup’s prize money of $8M to $10M.
The two-day ICC board meeting, which concluded on Monday, also decided that the winners can pocket $3.9M and even more. The ICC "decided that the team which remain unbeaten in the World Cup can receive a total prize money" of $4M but if the team loses one match on the way to winning the tournament, it will receive $3.9M. Even the team which loses the final on March 29 at Melbourne can win $1.7M while the two losing semifinalists will each get $600,000 (GULF NEWS, 11/10). In London, Mark Cue reported if next year's Cricket World Cup final ends in a tie or no result, the trophy "will be shared by the finalists." The ICC "opted to scrap the 'super over' to decide the showpiece" at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The "super over," which comprises each team facing six balls, with two wickets, "will be scrapped for all knockout matches" (LONDON TIMES, 11/10).
ANTI-CORRUPTION CODE: The AFP reported the ICC "approved its revised anti-corruption code on Monday but left it up to home boards to allow banned players to return early to domestic competition."
For a player to return to domestic competition before the expiry of his ban "would need the agreement of the chairman of the anti-corruption board, Sir Ronnie Flannagan, and the relevant National Cricket Federation, with the approval of the ICC Board." The ICC said that the revised code "would close certain loopholes and address the issue of who has jurisdiction in a particular case" (AFP, 11/10).
