RUMOUR, GOSSIP & INNUENDO

Another collection of snippets not long enough for an article on their own. Suggestions for a better title are welcome. Unfortunately, no prizes are on offer!

ICC East Asia-Pacific Development Officer, Mr. Andrew Eade confirmed last week, that he is working with Hong Kong Cricket Association officials to resurrect the Hong Kong Sixes in a Cricket Max/Super Eights format.

As always with these sort of things, it is mostly dependant on sponsorship.

Cricket's most famous Sixes tournament, Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes, is now an officially recognised "ICC/United Nations Cricket Week" event.

As a result, the event is likely to receive a visit from an ICC "Cricket Ambassador" such as Sir Richard Hadlee or Allan Border.

Maybe it doesn't matter but compare these two situations:

The inaugural meeting of officials from countries in the ICC's East Asia- Pacific region will be held later this month in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Rightly, it will include officials of all ICC Associate and Affiliate members in the region, as well as those countries presently not members such as South Korea, Tonga, New Caledonia etc.

Meanwhile, only the second ever meeting of officials from ICC Americas countries to be held in Argentina this month will exclude both the Bahamas and Belize despite both being Affiliate members of the ICC.

When BTW spoke to Bahamian and Belize officials in the past fortnight, they were not aware the gathering of Canadian, American, Argentine, Bermudian and Cayman Island officials was even taking place.

Two topics to be discussed at the meeting are the formation of a regional association and the establishment of a tournament for Western Hemisphere countries.

ICC Americas Development Officer, John Shepherd, said the Bahamas and Belize would be included at a later date.