India are not in danger of losing the hosting rights of the 2021 Champions Trophy and 2023 World Cup despite tax exemption issues, the International Cricket Council (ICC) CEO David Richardson declared Thursday, ending speculation that has swirled around the two events. The Indian government refused to give tax exemptions to the ICC when the country hosted the 2016 World T20 following which the game's governing body asked the BCCI to either pay USD 23 million (Rs 161 crore) as compensation or lose the 2023 World Cup rights. "Getting tax exemptions is very important for world cricket because every cent that is made by the ICC revenue wise is put back into the game. The schedule for the 2020 T20 World Cup was announced earlier this week and India and Pakistan won't meet in the group stages for the first time since 2011. In this case, Pakistan were number one in the rankings in their group and India number two," Richardson said.

Source: dna January 31, 2019 10:41 UTC