South Africa will host this year's Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council board unanimously agreed.

The tournament had originally been scheduled to take place in Pakistan last September, but was delayed due to the security fears of a number of competing nations.

With concerns heightened by the terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore two weeks ago, it was decided at an ICC meeting in January that Pakistan would not host the tournament with the ICC chief executives' committee instructed to investigate new possible hosts.

That committee made a recommendation to the ICC to hand the hosting duties to South Africa last week, with the ICC board confirming that recommendation following a teleconference meeting on Monday.