

ICC President David Morgan, today in Dubai at a press conference unveiled the new logo of the ICC. He also stated "With this change in the logo we expect change in our cricketing standards to. We have planned a very important tournament that will occur once a year to promote the associate nations."
The New ICC Logo
He also stated "Associate nations need some support from the test playing nations to bring up their cricketing standards. We currently have 10 Full time members, 34 Associate member's and 60 Affiliate member's. We are looking to close up the gap and have more Full Time members then associate and more Associate members then Affiliate members. But for that we need a change in cricket and change in cricketing action.
In this press conference he was asked a lot of questions on the upcoming 2011 World Cup and he was confident enough in answering questions regarding security,arrangements and other stuffs.
Question era soon shifted to Test Matches and Day Night Test matches to be played or not. But here he revealed ICC's plan to revamp the Test Matches and also gave a big shock in Banning the players who play IPL and avoid this ICC's plan.
He stated " We are glad to announce that in order to have more teams in the full members status and also to save test matches, we have come up with an Idea of World War. This cricketing series will see the end of T20's and will see the rise of Pro 30 Tournaments in ICC.This tournament will have 3 formats and 16 teams will participate. The formats will be Pro 30, 5 Day Long Test Matches and ODI's. The 16 Teams will be divided into 6 Continents team. Asia will have 2 teams representing in this tournament as they have more number of teams."
ICC also unveiled their names and continents name.

The New ICC Logo
In this press conference he was asked a lot of questions on the upcoming 2011 World Cup and he was confident enough in answering questions regarding security,arrangements and other stuffs.
Question era soon shifted to Test Matches and Day Night Test matches to be played or not. But here he revealed ICC's plan to revamp the Test Matches and also gave a big shock in Banning the players who play IPL and avoid this ICC's plan.
He stated " We are glad to announce that in order to have more teams in the full members status and also to save test matches, we have come up with an Idea of World War. This cricketing series will see the end of T20's and will see the rise of Pro 30 Tournaments in ICC.This tournament will have 3 formats and 16 teams will participate. The formats will be Pro 30, 5 Day Long Test Matches and ODI's. The 16 Teams will be divided into 6 Continents team. Asia will have 2 teams representing in this tournament as they have more number of teams."
ICC also unveiled their names and continents name.
- Asian Fire's - Representing India,Pakistan,Srilanka & Afghanistan
- Asian Beast - Representing India,Pakistan,Srilanka & Bangladesh
- African Giants - Representing Kenya,South Africa & Zimbabwe
- Down Under Devils - Representing Australia & Newzealand
- European Eagles - Representing England,Ireland & Scotland
- Caribbean Tiger's - Representing West Indies,USA & Netherlands
The ICC President then said " We are hoping that Associate nations do get a chance to gain experience and people will be looking to see their favorite stars in action in these 3 exciting formats. He add this year tournament will be played in Newzealand and Australia"
Index
Squad,Captains,Teams
Fixtures and Results
Match 1 : Preview
Last edited: