Also on the agenda for the 12-member committee, an advisory body chaired by legendary India bastman Sunil Gavaskar, are a report on umpires and match referees performances during 2003-04.

Plans for future technology trials, following on from the 2003 experiments in South Africa where umpires were given ear-pieces linked to stump microphones to help them rule on thin edges and special white markings in line with the leg stump to assist with lbw decisions, will be considered as well.

But it is the issue of illegal bowling actions, one of cricket's most intractable problems, which is likely to excite most interest.

The subject has been thrown into sharp relief by the controversy surrounding Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.

That re-ignited the debate about whether players reported to the ICC for suspect actions should be allowed to continue playing and the Dubai meeting will be reviewing the existing process for dealing with such bowlers.

Apart from Gavaskar, the cricket committee also features several other retired Test players with Australia off-spinner Tim May, England seamer Angus Fraser (England), and former Sri Lanka batsman Aravinda de Silva, all having departed the international playing scene within the past decade.

Present too will be Zimbabwe's Kevin Arnott. He is likely to face questioning on the state of cricket in the troubled African country, following the Zimbabwe Cricket Union's decision to sack 15 senior white players, even though this subject is not on the agenda.

ICC President Ehsan Mani of Pakistan and the global governing body's Australian chief executive Malcolm Speed will also be in attendance.