The International Cricket Council (ICC) says it is inviting potential commercial partners to bid for the 2015 cricket World Cup in New Zealand and Australia.
The event will be offered to companies -- which meet the ICC's criteria for bidding -- in Dubai at the end of the month, indiantelevision.com reported on its website.
Australia and New Zealand were chosen in April to co-host the World Cup when the ICC's executive board decided to award the 2011 World Cup to a joint Asian bid. As a result the ICC drew up a programme of 18 events over an eight-year period from late 2007 and Australia and New Zealand were slotted in to host the 2015 World Cup.
The five main events in the programme are the two World Cups, in Asia (2011) and Australia/ New Zealand, and at least three Champions Trophy tournaments. The ICC has also included two women's World Cups in Australia in 2009 and in India in 2013.
The existing agreement started in 2000 with Global Cricket Corporation (GCC), which is owned by News International Ltd, will end with the next year's World cup in the West Indies.
The GCC had paid US$550 million ($868 million) to secure the rights after a fierce bidding war with Subhash Chandra's Zee Telefilms.
- NZPA
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