The ICC will consider allowing Pakistan to "outsource" its allocation of 2011 World Cup matches to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, according to David Morgan, the ICC chairman. Delegates from the ICC and the four host nations held a four-hour meeting at Lord's on Monday to discuss Pakistan's position as World Cup co-hosts in the wake of the March 3 terror attacks outside the Gadaffi Stadium in Lahore.
Pakistan, as per the previous decision of ICC Development International (the council's commercial arm), will not host matches at the 2011 tournament, but the PCB will still be recognised as hosts and retain fees from its original allocation of 14 matches. Just where those games will be played remains the chief point of contention, however, with co-hosts India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh keen to share the 14 games between them, and the PCB proposing an outsourcing arrangement with the United Arab Emirates.
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