Tim Wigmore provides a detailed analysis for CricInfo:-
“The new world order risks entrenching the fundamental inequity in the treatment of the leading Associates and the worst- performing Full Members. Even if Afghanistan defeated Zimbabwe in the Test playoff and in every ODI between the sides, they would still receive around $20 million every eight years – while Zimbabwe, regardless of performance, would receive over $70 million. There is no sign of how this could ever change: the new ICC plans don’t even contain a token mention of how any new country could obtain Full Member status.

For all the ICC’s lofty rhetoric about “meritocracy” and expanding the game, a profound funding gap, unrelated to performance, would remain at the heart of international cricket. But it’s not only Afghanistan and Ireland who should feel aggrieved: the 90 lowest-ranked cricketing nations, who carry with them cricket’s dreams of becoming a genuinely global game, have cause for profound despair.”
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