Mumbai (PTI): Outgoing CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Malcolm Speed, on Wednesday said there was no immediate need to carve out a slot for the Indian Premier League in the Future Tours Programme at the moment.

"The players know that the only reason they are approached for the Twenty20 is because they are the stars for their country. They have become good players because they have been brought up in the system within their country. IPL hasn't started yet. Before we go carving windows in the structure that is basis of the finances of all countries including the BCCI, let's see how good it is. There is no rush to do this," he emphasised.

Instead the ICC CEO said the biggest challenge facing the game's administrators right now was how to integrate the T20 format with Tests and ODIs to ensure that none had to face disinterest of the fans.

"I said to the ICC board in the very long paper I wrote in March this year that this current generation of cricket administrators will be judged not by how much money the game makes out of T20 cricket, it will be judged by how well we integrate T20 into the other forms of the game. We regard it as a challenge, not a problem," Speed told reporters here.

"It's very healthy and as the current generation of cricket administrators we have an interesting challenge and that is to integrate T20 cricket with the other two forms of the game," he said.