Rod Lyall of Cricket Europe comments…
“So as the door is definitively slammed on the aspirations of the vast majority to reach the pinnacle of world cricket, and the top Associates and Affiliates are effectively informed that they’ve been wasting their time for the past ten years; untold sums are probably to be thrown at the ICC’s two favourites. China’s international record remains awful, and the USA’s efforts to create an indigenous base for cricket have had, to put it mildly, a marked lack of success. But it is them that the cynical, money-grubbing leaders of the ICC, who don’t actually give a twopenny damn about cricket, are making a priority. The Strategic Plan 2011-15, it seems, will represent a significant shift in ICC policy, whatever fine words its glossy pages may bear about a continued global vision. It will mark the final victory of the culture of great-power politics and corruption over common decency, and of greed over the Spirit of Cricket.”
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Cricket Europe further comments:-
“The selfishness, greed (that word again), and complete lack of vision by the ICC is sadly not surprising. They have shown themselves time and time again not to be fit for purpose. We hope that this is the final straw for the 95 countries who now have no or very little opportunity ever to feature in a World Cup. This shameful and pathetic decision needs to be challenged in the courts, as does the antiquated voting system of the ICC.”