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JOHANNESBURG, Monday (Reuters) Reserve days for rain-affected pool matches at next year's World Cup have been scrapped, the tournament's organising committee said on Monday.

World Cup executive director Ali Bacher said the decision had been taken because hotel rooms, air travel and satellite television would have had to be double-booked to accommodate reserve days.

"Logistically for the teams, their supporters, the local and overseas media and the organisers this created several potential risks to the tight schedule and had the potential to disrupt the remainder of the tournament," he said. "In the end, there was little option but to move away from the reserve days for the first round."

Reserve days will still apply to all matches from the Super Six stage of the tournament from March 7.

Two reserve days have been set aside for the final at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on March 23. Points will be shared at pool matches between February 9 and March 4 if no result is possible on the day of the match.

The Duckworth-Lewis system of recalculating target scores in rain-affected matches will be used in all matches.

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