ICC expects end of Oz era,takes back trophy

Cricket Australia has been forced to return the ICC Test Champion trophy to Dubai after holding it for all eight years of its existence apart from a brief period of four months in 2003,when South Africa briefly claimed it.

CA8217;s new office in Melbourne has been designed around the gold and silver mace-shaped 150,000 trophy speckled with jewels. 8220;We have held it ever since the ICC Test rankings were introduced in May 2001,so apart from the four months in 2003 it8217;s been with us,8221; CA spokesman Peter Young said.

8220;Our building was designed around the trophy. We are most certainly planning to bring it back with us from South Africa. If that does not eventuate we may have to get some Polyfilla and fill the space in our foyer,8221; he was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald.