“The result of this will be the countries that need ICC income most will receive the least while the ‘big three' will get the lion's share even though they are already financially healthy because of the value of the rights to their bilateral series.
“The role of ICC events should be to assist in leveling the financial playing field by distributing the proceeds from these events fairly, rather than further widening the gap between the rich and poor.”
ICC chief executive Dave Richardson indicated there was still a long process to be followed before any reforms were implemented.
“These are just recommendations that they have put together, it's by our working group of members of our finance and commercial affairs committee,” he said. “They are representatives from England, Australia and India.
“Those proposals are still to be discussed in full by our finance committee as an example and the full ICC board when it meets at the end of January.
“So at this stage it's far too premature for the ICC to make any comment on the content of the proposals because as we speak, we're still going through them, getting further clarifications, finding out exactly what is intended, and then hopefully we will be able to have (a) proper discussion about these at the board meeting at the end of the month.”
