After that, a new Twenty20 tournament will be launched, although the ECB will be unable to make any major changes until it knows the future look of international cricket.

Despite the introduction of a Test divisional championship, it is likely the amount of Test cricket will be reduced after 2019, giving more time in the calendar for domestic Twenty20 tournaments, which will help the ECB plan its own relaunched competition.

This annual meeting will be the first to be chaired by a fully independent chairman and the board are likely to agree to further stripping back changes introduced two years ago, when England, India and Australia took control of the ICC in a power grab.

The so-called ‘Big Three’ made changes that split world cricket, but the fall of India’s Narayanaswami Srinivasan as chairman last year has led to the ICC taking a different direction. Srinivasan’s replacement, fellow Indian Shashank Manohar, criticised the ‘Big Three’ and approved moves to make the ICC chairman independent of any board. Manohar, himself, stood down from the Board of Control for Cricket in India and agreed to the permanent positions of England, Australia and India on the ICC’s executive and finance committees to be scrapped. A five-member panel will report to the ICC in Edinburgh on further changes to the constitution.