ICC Board likely to take final call on CT on Sunday

month's Champions Trophy is expected on Sunday when the I.C.C.

Board holds a teleconference to discuss the possibility ofholding the tournament in Pakistan.

Apart from the I.C.C. Board teleconference, a separate hook-up of the task team, which visited Pakistan recently, hasbeen called no Friday.

The decision to call the two hook-ups was taken after I.C.C. President David Morgan, Vice President Sharad Pawar and Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat met here on Wednesday to discuss the feedback from the task team briefings with stakeholdersfrom England, Australia and New Zealand.

"As a result of that feedback, Wednesday's meeting agreed that, subject to confirmation from the relevant participants, teleconferences would be called of the task team (on Friday)and the I.C.C. Board (on Sunday)," an I.C.C. statement said.

The meeting was also attended by Pakistan Cricket Board'sChief Operating Officer Shafqat Naghmi.

Prior to the two hook-ups, Lorgat will meet Cricket South Africa officials to brief them on the safety and securitymeasures in place for the tournament.

Cricket Boards of Australia, New Zealand and England have expressed reservations on the Champions Trophy being held inPakistan because of security reasons.

Players, especially from Australia and New Zealand, backed by their respective players' associations, have questioned the logic of holding the elite-level tournament in Pakistan due to continuous violence there. PTI AT PDS KNO