"Now, however, 99 years after patrician administrators from England, Australia and South Africa first established the Imperial Cricket Conference, it is legitimate to ask whether the ICC can maintain a relevant role in the game," writes Paul Kelso in the Guardian.
Next Monday the ICC board will gather in Dubai for a meeting that represents a genuine fork in the road. The formal agenda looks as sterile as the air-conditioned tower block from which cricket is now notionally ruled, but the issues could not be more incendiary. Zimbabwe, the future of the World Cup, the international calendar, the Indian Twenty20 leagues and the appointment of a new chief executive are all due to be discussed. After a decade of mismanagement, amid unprecedented commercial and political pressures and with its members increasingly placing narrow self-interest over the collective good, we are about to discover whether the ICC is still capable of governing the game.
