Tim Wigmore writes on the future of the ICC for CricInfo
Nestled in the bottom of the new ICC press release is a small reminder that, even under the apparently newly enlightened regime, all ICC members are equal, but some are a lot more equal than others. For the next Under-19 World Cup in 2018, the ten Test nations will qualify automatically, along with the best-performing Associate in the ongoing tournament. The upshot is that only one of Namibia and Nepal, who have both qualified for this year’s quarter-finals, will secure an automatic berth to the next competition. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe, who all failed to reach the last eight, are already assured of their places.

Just because the Big Three made cricket’s governance even less adequate is no reason to blithely revert back to what to what existed before. Until 2014, the ICC was a snooty Victorian club masquerading as an international sports governing body, run according to the interests of its ten Full Members – not its 105 overall members or, more generally, the betterment of the game. That is no template to revert back to.
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