Why does the ICC have an account in the British Virgin Islands?
I understand the ICC decided to have a development fund sometime during Clyde Walcott’s reign as president. Bob Cowper, a former Australian cricket player and adviser to the ICC, suggested they have this company in Monaco so the proceeds could come in and then go out to the various cricketing projects without being taxed. IDI is the ICC Development Company and it’s a British Virgin Islands company. Do you have any stake in that company? (Laughs) No! It’s owned by the nine Test-playing nations who form the body of the ICC. I have nothing to do with it. What about Lancaster Holdings? The company where you allegedly have a stake in? We wrote to the Sunday Telegraph about that and they published a retraction and an apology, and they are now convinced that we have nothing whatsoever to do with any ownership direct or indirect with Lancaster Holdings. What’s the idea behind Cricket Talk? What’s the vision? It’s been on the anvil for a while. Ayaz Memon and I have been talking about it for a
