CENTURION, South Africa ? A proposal for a world Test cricket championship could be discussed in February, International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said Wednesday. ?The Test championship is best described as a work in progress,? Lorgat told Reuters. ?We are aspiring to create some sort of Test championships model and a working group was set up at the last chief executives? meeting on Dec. 1 in Dubai. They will put together concepts for a Test championship and we hope to consider a proposal at our next meeting in February.? The ICC cricket committee, made up of former and current players, administrators and umpires, has called for a world Test championship to revive flagging interest in the longest version of the game. ICC President David Morgan said earlier on Wednesday that test cricket needed to break with tradition to maintain interest. ?I?d be surprised if we don?t see day-night Test cricket within the next two years - surprised and disappointed,? Morgan told reporters in London. Lorgat said he was hoping to see a reduction in the amount of cricket played from next year. ?It?s important to get the volume of cricket right, and this will challenge our minds in 2010. It is always difficult because some fixtures are by the ICC, some by bilateral arrangement and then you have all the domestic fixtures. But we all need to work together to get the appropriate balance.? He said Test cricket would remain at the pinnacle of the game. ?One of our successes this year has been to bring Test cricket back into focus. It helped that India gained the number-one ranking because that created a lot of interest and, with South Africa challenging strongly, it?s very promising for Test cricket.? Security a great problem Safety and security remains the biggest problem facing world cricket, the head of the sport?s global governing body told reporters in London. Morgan said the armed attack on Sri Lanka?s team bus in Lahore on March 3 had ?changed the landscape?. That attack, which also saw shots fired at a coach carrying the umpires and the match referee, led to the suspension of international cricket in Pakistan. Since then the ongoing concerns about the safety of Pakistan as a venue for international sport while the government battles the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, led the ICC to re-distribute its scheduled 14 matches at the 2011 World Cup among fellow Asian co-hosts India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ?The biggest problem is safety and security,? Morgan told a meeting of the Indian Journalists? Association at the Oval here on Wednesday. ?The Lahore attacks changed the landscape. That was a tragic event, so many people had said to me ?never worry about playing Test match cricket in Pakistan, the cricketers won?t be targeted. ?But they were and so were the player control team.? Meanwhile, Morgan also revealed the ICC was looking at returning to its former headquarters at London?s Lord?s Cricket Ground. The ICC left for Dubai in 2005 after the British government refused to grant international sporting bodies exemption from corporation tax. Morgan, a former England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman, insisted the financial situation in Dubai was not behind talk of a return. Asked what had prompted talk of coming back to Lord?s, Morgan replied: ?Attitudes to working in Dubai and the environment in the UK.? One potential problem with a return to London is the entry of Zimbabwe officials into Britain. ? Agencies __
