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Melbourne: West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Pat Rousseau, chief executive Gregory Shillingford and captain Jimmy Adams will participate in separate meetings of the International Cricket Council (ICC) here next month to discuss the future of the game amidst concern about corruption and match-fixing.

Adams will attend the annual gathering of Test captains where issues that concern them and their players will be aired. Outgoing chief executive of the ICC, Australian David Richards, will chair the meeting.

A spokesman for the ICC, Mark Harrison, said only England captain Nasser Hussain and Indian captain Sourav Ganguly appeared likely to be absent.

Hussain leads England in a Test series against Sri Lanka starting February 8, while Ganguly is expected to remain in India preparing for the arrival of the Australian Test team on February 13.

The others are Steve Waugh (Australia), Jimmy Adams (West Indies) and Heath Streak (Zimbabwe), who are in Australia for the Carlton One-Day series, Stephen Fleming (New Zealand), Moin Khan (Pakistan), Shaun Pollock (South Africa), Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) and the captain of Test cricket's newest member, Naimur Rahman of Bangladesh.

The captains' conference will be one of a series of ICC meetings to be held during a week in which the Carlton Series finals series will be played.

The ICC's referees and umpires will meet on February 7, the day of the first final in Sydney.

The ICC's cricket committee management meeting will be convened on February 8-9 for the discussion of matters relating to playing conditions and rules. Its recommendations will be passed to the ICC's executive meeting, to be chaired by president Malcolm Gray on February 11 for consideration.

A more anticipated meeting of the executive will be held on February 10, when the director of the ICC's new anti-corruption unit, former London police chief Sir Paul Condon, delivers the first review of his team's investigations into match-fixing and corruption.

The WICB's attorney, Justin Simon, will attend the meeting with Condon along with Rousseau and Shillingford.

When the captains last met, during the ICC Knockout Tournament in Kenya in October, Steve Waugh raised concerns about the introduction of a five-run penalty for breaching rules that relate to player conduct.

That and other matters relating to playing conditions are likely to be discussed.

Also of concern to the captains, and Zimbabwe's Streak in particular, is the widening gap between the game's richer and poor countries. The distribution of ICC funding is expected to be on the agenda.

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