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ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 Including Summarised Financial Statements BELOW: Australia team celebrates with the Trans-Tasman Trophy after winning the second Test against New Zealand in Christchurch on 24 February 2016. Australia finished as the number-one ranked Test side at the 1 April cut-off date and also retained the top position after the 1 May annual update. 01 CONTENTS FOREWORD Chairman’s Report ...................................................................... 02 Chief Executive’s Report.............................................................04 ICC Strategy 2016-2019 ............................................................. 06 Highlights of the Year ................................................................. 08 Obituaries ..................................................................................... 12 Retirements .................................................................................. 15 THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE SPORT Governance of the Global Game ................................................ 18 ICC Members ................................................................................ 21 Cricket ...........................................................................................22 Development .............................................................................. 24 Commercial ..................................................................................26 Anti-Corruption ...........................................................................28 Anti-Doping..................................................................................29 DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS EVENTS ICC World Twenty20 India 2016 (Men’s) ....................................32 ICC World Twenty20 India 2016 (Women’s) ..............................38 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015 (Men’s) ............................44 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015 (Women’s) ....................... 46 ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2016 ............................................... 48 ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2015 ................................50 ICC Intercontinental Cup .............................................................52 ICC World Cricket League ............................................................54 ICC Women’s Championship .......................................................56 SPIRIT OF CRICKET ICC Awards 2015 ......................................................................... 60 ICC Cricket Hall of Fame ..............................................................62 ICC Development Programme Awards 2015 .............................63 Cricket for Good .......................................................................... 64 CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Audit Committee Chairman’s Report ....................................... 68 Summary Consolidated Financial Statements ......................... 69 The information in this report covers the period from 1 June 2015 to 31 May 2016 ICC ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 FOREWORD 02 ICC CHAIRMAN’S REPORT CHAIRMAN’S REPORT SHASHANK MANOHAR I write these words as The reason for that pride is not personal, We are now in an environment where our although certainly I am honoured to hold sport is competing against many other the first independent this prestigious office. options for the attention of the public and we have to recognise that fact and Chairman of the ICC – My emotion is more the feeling I have respond accordingly. and being able to do so based on the progress we have made as an organisation over the recent months. The players on the field have their is something that fills And I want everyone to know that it is responsibility to ensure the game indicative of the type of progress I wish continues to be played as the fantastic me with an enormous for us to continue to make over the spectacle it now is – something illustrated amount of pride. coming days, weeks, months and years. perfectly by the excellent action witnessed during the men’s and women’s I am determined that we should not ICC World Twenty20 in India and ICC U19 define ourselves as a body that makes Cricket World Cup in Bangladesh. decisions that suit a select few rather than the game as a whole. That certainly ensured a feel-good factor among the cricketing public as television The ICC is an organisation with 105 viewing figures, including 730 million Members and I am keen to ensure that all people in India alone, were outstanding, our Members, regardless of whether they and social media – including record are Affiliates, Associates or Full Members, numbers for Facebook, Twitter and feel a part of the ICC family, and together we Instagram – were equally responsive. can move ahead as a united inclusive front to take on the challenges that lie before us. But as administrators we, too, have a duty to ensure that we are moving forward, And, equally, I am determined that we should and that is something I intend to ensure not rest on our laurels and say that because remains the case. something works today, it will always work. ICC ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 FOREWORD ICC CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 03 “The ICC is an organisation with 105 Members and I am keen to ensure that all our Members, regardless of whether they are Affiliates, Associates or Full Members, feel a part of the ICC family, and together we can move ahead as a united inclusive front to take on the challenges that lie before us.” The act of making my role as Chairman Executive Committee, Finance & improve the governance of the game of independent of a Member constituency Commercial Affairs Committee and cricket in a transparent manner, not only of means I am in a position to lead that Associate/Affiliate Member group, to be the ICC but also the Member Boards. This, move and it is something I will seek to supported by various members of ICC in turn, will enhance the image and quality pursue with the utmost vigor during my management to work on this review. of the sport. I am determined to make a two years in office. meaningful contribution in this regard with Additionally it was agreed in that February support of all the Members. The fact we are now in this position is a 2016 ICC Board meeting that in a further credit to my fellow ICC Directors as they attempt to improve the governance All these changes have left me feeling have also seen there is a need to reassess standards of, and transparency within, extremely positive for the future of the the way we do things. Theirs has been an Member Boards, the ICC Board would administration of the game of cricket but enlightened perspective in not only agreeing reinstate a previous requirement that Full now we must maintain the momentum to my changed role but also, in February 2016, Members must submit to the ICC their generated over recent months to ensure approving changes to the terms of reference latest audited statements on an annual we continue to head in the right direction. of the Finance & Commercial Affairs basis, as was already the case with all Committee and Executive Committee so as Associate and Affiliate Members. Given the fundamental changes already to remove the permanent positions for the agreed to, the role of ICC President has nominees of the Board of Control for Cricket And with an aim to improve relationships become redundant and so Zaheer Abbas in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and the with the Members and cricket will be the last person to serve in that England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on stakeholders from around the world, office. I would like to thank him for his these committees, and to allow fair access the Board decided that three of its four latest contribution in a lifetime of service to membership for all Full and Associate meetings of the year would take place in to cricket and I am sure he will continue to Member directors, with the sole criteria being Member countries outside of the UAE. grace the game he has adorned for so long. the skill, competence and experience of the relevant director. And above and beyond that, You may be wondering why we are doing As for the present, we are now entering the entire composition of those committees these things. After all, the ICC has been a period that will define how those will be reviewed during 2016. in existence since 1909 and as the game who follow us will view our efforts as appears in good shape at the moment, administrators. If we can succeed by The Board also agreed, in early 2016, to with a long-term broadcast contract putting in place a range of best practice review all constitutional changes and in place until 2023, there could be a measures, growing the game, taking it to resolutions made in 2014 with a view temptation to sit back and freewheel. new markets and securing its future for to establishing governance, finance, decades to come then we will have earned corporate and cricketing structures That, however, is not the way our sport the right to be regarded as successes in appropriate and effective for the strategic will develop and it is not the way it will what we have set out to achieve. role and function of the ICC and all of its retain its existing supporters, gain new Members. This review has also included an ones or tap into new and potentially In order to receive those accolades much examination of the ICC’s constitution. lucrative markets. hard work lies ahead and it is work I am very much looking forward to, alongside The Board constituted a five-member The decisions taken since I assumed the role not only my fellow ICC Directors, but also steering