{"id":733625,"date":"2026-08-10T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733625\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:52:16","slug":"icc-criticised-for-disrespectful-changes-to-world-cup-by-cricket-scotland-and-kncb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733625\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC criticised for ‘disrespectful’ changes to World Cup by Cricket Scotland and KNCB"},"content":{"rendered":"

The changes to the World Cup were agreed during meetings at the ICC’s annual conference held in Edinburgh in July. <\/p>\n

However, BBC Sport understands nearly all associate members were kept in the dark over the changes despite being present at the conference.<\/p>\n

The joint statement follows concerns raised by the World Cricketers’ Association<\/a> last month over the decision.<\/p>\n

Cricket Scotland and the KNCB said they remain “fully committed” to “working constructively with the ICC”. <\/p>\n

But the two boards accused the global governing body of being “disrespectful” in how they have handled some of the discussions following the announcement.<\/p>\n

“Cricket Scotland, KNCB and other associate members met twice with the ICC, seeking official written communication on the changes and greater clarity around the processes involved,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

“We also requested positive action to strengthen future operational decision-making and an invitation to bilateral planning meetings with full members. <\/p>\n

“Since the second meeting more than two weeks ago, there has been no further response from the ICC, which is disappointing and disrespectful given the significance of the issues raised.”<\/p>\n

ICC officials are said to be surprised by the joint statement and some of the accusations made, in particular relating to timeframes in recent meetings.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport understands the ICC view some of the issues brought to the table in those discussions – including around associate involvement in Future Tours Programme planning – as ongoing conversations rather than ones with fixed deadlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The changes to the World Cup were agreed during meetings at the ICC’s annual conference held in Edinburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}