Ukrainian cricket administrators seek membership in ICCReutersThe chief executive of Ukraine’s cricket board said it “ticks all the boxes” to become an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and that the game would not survive if it is denied entry. The Ukraine Cricket Federation (UCF) has been organizing cricket for the past two decades and has a pool of 15,000 students, most of them Indian, at the senior level. Its chief executive, Kobus Olivier, told reporters that it met all the ICC requirements before Russia invaded. If the ICC rejects its membership application the consequences for the game in Ukraine would be dire, Olivier said. ICC membership would make the UCF eligible for government funding and could attract new sponsors.
