ICC to pay Pakistan $10 million

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has agreed to pay the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) a fee of more than $10 million as a World Cup co-host, despite Pakistan being stripped of their scheduled 14 limited-overs matches for security reasons.



Pakistan lost the rights to stage their share of the 2011 World Cup matches in April due to security fears in the wake of an attack on the Sri Lankan team by gunmen in Lahore.



Each World Cup host country is guaranteed a payment of $750,000 for every allocated match, and co-hosts Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka accepted at an ICC meeting in London yesterday that if any of Pakistan\'s 14 matches were to take place in their countries, they would not be due a fee for hosting them.