The West Indies was chosen as venue of the ninth World Cup Cricket Tournament to be organised in the year 2007.

If the West Indies failed to upgrade their match centres in the next five years then some of the World Cup matches may be staged in Bermuda, Canada and the USA.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) released some details of the ICC decisions here on Monday. The PCB chairman Khalid Mahmood and chief executive Majid Khan also attended the ICC meetings. The PCB announcement said that the ICC also decided to hold the World Under-19 Cricket Cup after every two years.

Canada was selected as venue of the next ICC Trophy. The competition is organised among the associate members of the ICC. Ireland, and USA were also candidates for hosting the competition. Canada will host the contest in July and August, 2001.

The ICC knock-out Tournament involving all the nine Test-playing countries will be held in Dhaka from Oct 24 to Nov 4.

The ICC members felt encouraged by the progress made in all aspects of Bangladesh cricket. However, the application of Bangladesh for full membership of the ICC was deferred. The country is planning to introduce a new domestic first-class competition in next 12 months. A sub-committee, comprising Nasim-ul-Ghani, Bobby Simpson and Andy Pycroft was formed to visit Bangladesh as soon as possible and monitor the progress in this regard.

France and Uganda were granted associate membership of the ICC, while Kuwait, Luxembourg and Malta were accepted as affiliate members.