Andrew Nixon of CricketEurope analyses the impact of ICC plans to centralise control in Cricket Australia, the ECB and the BCCI.
“It’s hard for us followers of associate and affiliate cricket to be sympathetic to those full member boards. After all, they’re having done to them exactly what they’ve been complicit in doing to associate and affiliate members over the last few decades. But like the associate and affiliate members, these seven full members now find themselves without any real power. Some sort of alliance would be most welcome. It’s likely to be the only way to survive.
Forget match fixing, forget DRS controversies, forget batsmen not walking and forget any other spirit of cricket nonsense. This is the real threat to cricket. It is a return to the dark days of the past. It is a 19th century method of governance for a 21st century sport.”
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