ACC gets $6 million as its share

Rawalpindi, Nov 4: The Asia Cricket Council (ACC) has got its 50 per cent share from the earnings of last month's International Cricket Council (ICC) knockout tournament in Kenya.

An ACC official said six million dollars were deposited in the kitty of the council earlier this week.

He said the ACC would control the finances and allocate funds for the development of cricket. "There will not be a committee like the ICC development committee at whose disposal is huge money. But the ACC will decide where, how and when money has to be spent on the development of infrastructure facilities."

The ACC has already appointed former Sri Lanka captain Duleep Mendis as its development officer who submits proposals to the ACC which approves them and then releases funds for their implementation.

The ACC's first official program will be the holding of an umpiring seminar in Pakistan in February next year.