ICC Champions Trophy media arrangements and Speed/Sonn media conference on Wednesday 1 November

The following are the media arrangements for tomorrow, Wednesday 1 November.

Speed/Sonn Media Conference

ICC Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Speed and President Percy Sonn will hold a media conference at the Taj Hotel, Chandigarh at 1030. The conference will be held Ballroom 1 which can be reached by heading along the corridor that is on the right after entering the hotel. It is the same venue used for the ICC Global Cricket Academy media conference on Monday.

The media conference takes place two days before the start of the ICC Executive Board meeting that will be held in Mumbai on Friday and Saturday, 3 and 4 November and Mr Speed and Mr Sonn will be able to outline the major items on the agenda for that meeting.

Mohali Australia and New Zealand face off in the first ICC Champions Trophy semi-final at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium. The match is a day-night game starting at 1430 with the winner reaching Sunday's final in Mumbai where it will face either South Africa or the holders, the West Indies.

After tomorrow's match, both captains and the man of the match will attend media conferences in the Dhruv Pandove Hall in the PCA pavilion. Non-rights holding television crews who have ICC accreditation will be permitted access to the conferences.

Media must enter the venue at Gates 1a and 1b and before doing so they must collect a match ticket from the collection point outside those gates. Tickets will be available for collection from 1200.

Media are required to have not only their ICC tournament media accreditation but also a PCA pass in order to gain access to the venue. Any queries on this matter can be addressed by either Brian Murgatroyd of the ICC (+91 98 73 80 80 33) or Rushmans Accreditation Manager Paula Warren (+91 98 73 80 80 45).

Jaipur South Africa and the West Indies will meet in the second semi-final in Jaipur on Thursday. Tomorrow they will hold their pre-match media conferences and final practice sessions ahead of that encounter.

South Africa will practice from 0900 at the RCA Academy Ground with captain Graeme Smith available to the media afterwards, at 1200; the West Indies captain Brian Lara will speak to the media at 1600 ahead of his side's practice session at the same venue.

Media requiring further details concerning arrangements can obtain them by contacting Sami-ul-Hasan, the ICC communications officer, who is in Jaipur (+91 98 73 80 80 34).

The teams' movements and availability to the media can also be obtained as follows:

Australia - Graeme Vimpani, media manager, on +91 98 73808059
New Zealand - Lindsay Crocker, team manager, on +91 98 73808005
South Africa - Gordon Templeton, media manager, on +91 98 73163958
West Indies - Imran Khan, media manager, on +91 99 79935375

The ICC Champions Trophy involves the top ten ODI sides playing 21 matches over 30 days at four venues with the final to be held at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai on 5 November. The West Indies are the defending champions after beating England by two wickets at The Brit Oval in September 2004.

The third ICC Awards ceremony, presented by Hyundai in association with FICA (the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations) will take place at the Taj Land's End Hotel in Mumbai on Friday evening, 3 November.

Media requiring details on accreditation for the event must contact ICC communications officer James Fitzgerald, who is in Mumbai ahead of Friday's function (+971 50 640 1223).