Recently, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and the England Cricket Board (ECB) proposed a structural overhaul of world cricket administration. If the proposed changes are made BCCI, CA and ECB will be the beneficiary from all sides, while Bangladesh will among the many sufferers.
It is not only the Future Tour Programmes (FTP) that the big three – BCCI, CA and ECB – are looking to delink from the ICC, but they also offered to introduce “two-tier” Test ranking. Promotion and relegation in Test cricket is the least Bangladesh, bottom ranked Test team, needs at the moment, the moment they are progressing in the arena. Apart from the Test concerns, if the proposed draft stand, then Bangladesh will be also be a loser in the revenue section as the restructured financial distribution makes everyone a loser apart from the BCCI, CA and ECB.
However, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan is yet to see the proposal, but expects to see it during the next ICC meeting. The draft proposal will be presented to the ICC Executive Board during its quarterly meeting in Dubai on January 28 and 29.
“We have to see the proposal thoroughly. We were given a hint in the Dubai meeting but the whole thing wasn’t presented to us. We will discuss these in the next ICC board meeting, where they might take a decision.
“We can’t do anything on our own. I can protest but if the other nine countries are on one side, there’s not much I can do. I have to find countries who are in our position, read through the proposals and then think what to do,” said Nazmul.
