Pakistan to oppose any change in governance model of ICC

[BDforever]

read the first line of my post........i was just stating its practically possible.........if bcci will want......boards like nzl,wi,zim,ireland,kenya,afghan,ecb and aussies will support it

and theremaining 4 boards will ultimately fall in line

1. why do you think wi,zim,ireland,kenya will support you ?
2. do you know that ireland and kenya do not have power to talk on this issue, only 10 full members ? ( i see you do not have much knowledge about Cricket body, only know Indian cricket LOL )
3. according to ICC constitution- this proposal needs 8 vote out of 10. two votes already gone against it (Pakistan and South Africa)
now count Bangladesh in it too. (not talking about Zim and West Indies who are also in financial crisis)
4. ICC vice president is Bangladeshi

 

[45'22']

1. why do you think wi,zim,ireland,kenya will support you ?
2. do you know that ireland and kenya do not have power to talk on this issue, only 10 full members ? ( i see you do not have much knowledge about Cricket body much, only know Indian cricket LOL )
3. according to ICC constitution- this proposal needs 8 vote out of 10. two votes already gone against it (Pakistan and South Africa)
now count Bangladesh in it too.

i was stating in case bcci and the remaining 2 boards take control.......in that case.......the 4 boards will go away.......then bcci and the remaining 2 can form a separate board with this teams.....

why doyou think the smaller boards wont support??????

anyways,i was against this proposal..............so chill

 

[BDforever]

i was stating in case bcci and the remaining 2 boards take control.......in that case.......the 4 boards will go away.......then bcci and the remaining 2 can form a separate board with this teams.....

why doyou think the smaller boards wont support??????

anyways,i was against this proposal..............so chill

1. actually it is 3 vs 6 now (New Zea land neutral on this issue)
2. associate boards will not support because their team is weak at this moment and if this proposal get pass then these team will not get much matches to improve themselves because they will get few sponsor to generate money which is main objective of this new format.
3. Funny thing is same BCCI cried in 1990s for ICC being under control of England and Australia and asked for democratic ICC body LOL

 

[akshay gehlot]

this proposals bit too harsh and orthodox but one cant deny that in cricket where few cou trues play the membership should be divided on terms of revenue. the share you bring for icc the share you get in icc. and its not happening only in cricket in the Premier League and La Liga too the teams that bring in the most get the most money.

if you were working very had at your firm and were the sole reason for almost 70%of all profits and had to share youre bonus with everyone else youd feel gutted too.

Lets be frank here Zimbabwe . kenya west indies and bangladesh hardly play any cricket and when they do get the chance they get battered by the likes of Sa and aus . so they should play more among themselves and regenerate the passion for cricket in their public. the world cup and world 20-20 held in west indies was awful . hardly any audience

 

[45'22']

this proposals bit too harsh and orthodox but one cant deny that in cricket where few cou trues play the membership should be divided on terms of revenue. the share you bring for icc the share you get in icc. and its not happening only in cricket in the Premier League and La Liga too the teams that bring in the most get the most money.

if you were working very had at your firm and were the sole reason for almost 70%of all profits and had to share youre bonus with everyone else youd feel gutted too.

Lets be frank here Zimbabwe . kenya west indies and bangladesh hardly play any cricket and when they do get the chance they get battered by the likes of Sa and aus . so they should play more among themselves and regenerate the passion for cricket in their public. the world cup and world 20-20 held in west indies was awful . hardly any audience

India generates 70 percent of the revenue and gets a little less
bcci has asked for 70 percent........they will get it for sure

 

[Umair Nawaz]

Its about time we start splitting ICC.......its of no use.

 

[BDforever]

Lets be frank here Zimbabwe . kenya west indies and bangladesh hardly play any cricket and when they do get the chance they get battered by the likes of Sa and aus .

are you out of your mind ! ! in last 2 years BD is Asia cup runner up , whitewashed New Zealand, won series against West Indies, draw series with Sri lanka , lost only 1 series to Zim. First read statistics then talk, complete ignorant

 

[45'22']

the big three are sure that they will get those numbers...........lets see what happens next

 

[Baby Leone]

I guess if india, due to billion plus poor population who doesn't have any other sports facility available to them, watch cricket only, which generate some revenue; doesn't mean they have right to rule ICC. Lol how funny, i laugh when ppls say BCCI is powerful & rich guys its just CZ of big poor population who come to watch cricket and the reason is india doesn't have any other sports at that level.

 

[Devil Soul]

Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) have also heavily criticized this proposal..

We are talking about ICC or UN Security Council???

 

[Armstrong]

Ban Cricket & get it over with - I never could understand the moronic urges of playing a Test Series for a few days that ended in a draw !

Football all the way !

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

This proposal will only help promote cricket in India, Aus and Eng. In a time when we think Cricket must spread like Football, this decision is idiotic without any foresight.
To be honest India have become a bad bully. We must promote cricket in a way to spread in all parts of this world. The associate nations must be prepared to have FTP among them and tour among themselves. We need a FIFA style management.

 

[Spring Onion]

Cricket’s deal with the devil


ICC’s proposal makes a mockery of the spirit of the great game, writes Nirmal Shekar
What do you do if you cannot stand up to the neighbourhood bully? You just join him instead — it makes perfect sense, both from a practical standpoint and from a Darwinian perspective.

In the event, you cannot fault either Cricket Australia (CA) or the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for agreeing with the game’s most unabashedly autocratic administrative body — the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) — to clearly divide the world of cricket into one of haves and have-nots.

The so-called ‘position paper’ drafted by the International Cricket Council’s financial honchos — or should we just say a few greedy Indians plus one or two others from the once mighty cricketing powers, England and Australia — is so flawed that it is not even wrong!

The 21-page document, which will be presented to the ICC Board at a quarterly meeting in Dubai on January 28 and 29, makes a mockery of the very essence of what we have come to believe as the spirit of the great game.

One of the most abiding memories — I still get goose pimples every time I think of it — of three and a half decades of watching sport and writing about it is of Nelson Mandela, in a Springbok jersey and cap, walking up to present the 1995 Rugby World Cup to the captain of an almost all-white South African team.

At that moment, at least, everything wrong with the world, everything divisive and cruel and abominable, was forgotten as all the people of the great man’s Rainbow Nation stood as one to cheer an epochal event.

Now, barely a few weeks after the passing of one of the greatest visionary statesmen we have known — the man who dismantled a wretched system under white rule in his country — the ICC wants to introduce its own version of the apartheid.

For over a hundred years, civilised souls in the cricket-playing world have been used to inhaling in horror, uttering the words ‘It isn’t cricket,’ whenever they thought something that was taking place was not fair.

Today, what isn’t cricket IS cricket. If no sport can rise above the meanness of the age, then ICC’s latest proposal pushes a great sport that has always been a metaphor for fairness into a moral cesspit.

For what the ‘position paper,’ if it is given the nod at the meeting, will do is to concentrate all power in the hands of just three cricket playing nations at the expense of all others, including — not so ironically in this day and age — the No.1 ranked nation in Test cricket, South Africa.

“Cricket South Africa has requested the ICC to withdraw the draft proposal emanating from the ICC Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee working group to allow for a more consultative and constitutionally-ordained process to take place,” Cricket South Africa said in a statement.

But then, you cannot fault India, Australia and England for not consulting. They have done a lot of it in the recent months, among themselves, that is. And it was done in proper conquistadorial — or should we say imperial — spirit to keep the weaklings in their place.

Financial clout rules

And cricket’s minnows are not just Zimbabwe and Bangladesh but every team that does not fit into its billionaire club. The new hierarchy will have nothing to do with cricketing ability and everything to do with financial clout.

Of course, Indian cricket fans — not to speak of its grotesquely idolised and hugely overpaid cricketers — should be happy because the BCCI will always be at the very top of the new order, no matter what happens.

But now all the pompous but empty sloganeering about turning cricket into a mighty global game stands exposed. And it may not be long before the game is found flourishing in just three or four countries, at best.

Perhaps in the mass-market driven world of modern sport, what has come to pass in cricket is something that is inevitable. But any sport will lose its heart and soul when commercial considerations turn out to be the only things that matter.

And the best of sport, or what provides it emotional heft, is an engrossing battle between David and Goliath.

Remember Cameroon and Roger Milla in the 1990 football World Cup? Remember the Australian journeyman Peter Doohan dethroning Boris Becker at Wimbledon in 1987? Or, remember, closer to home, Bangladesh denying India a place in the Super Eight in the 2007 World Cup?

The best of sport is not always about India versus Australia in cricket or Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal in tennis. We become urgently alive to sport’s inherent greatness and endless charm only when Mr. Nobody takes on Mr. Superstar and offers us the tantalising prospect of witnessing the impossible.

But the ICC appears to believe all this does not matter — only one thing does: money.


Cricket’s deal with the devil - The Hindu

 

[Yaduveer]

Deal is already done ..Now what were you saying ..