To the Chief Executives of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia.
This petition calls on you to:
1. Cancel plans for a new ICC Executive Committee with three boards as permanent members.
2. Cancel plans to increase the revenue share of the three proposed permanent members of the Exec Ctte at the expense of the 103 other members.
3. Cancel plans for other measures increasing the power and share of revenue of the BCCI, ECB and CA at the expense of other boards and the good of the game.
The International Cricket Council's strategic plan for 2011-2015 (http://icc-live.s3.amazonaws.com/cms/media/about_docs/518b6b2d624aa-summary_icc_strategic_plan.pdf) clearly states that the organisations values are: Fairness and Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, Teamwork, Respect for diversity, Commitment to the global game and its great spirit. These are clearly not respected by the proposals leaked to the media on 17th January 2014 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/710723.html).
The cricketing world is a small one and the game's long-term development cannot be safeguarded when administrators insist on an approach placing self-interest ahead of the wider good of the game The proposals effectively sideline 103 of the ICC's 106 members. Cricket supporters deserve better than that the sport they love be governed by an oligarchical cartel.
Updates
January 24, 2014
The petition has reached 250 signatures. I am drafting a formal letter to the ICC member boards outlining our specific objections to the proposed governance structure and have requested a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss these points.
Reached 250 supporters
January 22, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
January 18, 2014
129 Comments
Proposals are bad for international cricket as it gives effect veto to 3 countries, most of the money goes to India ($588M from current $117M), associates lose out thus damaging development of the sport.
This is just wrong... any proposal that states immunity from relegation for three boards as one of its tenants is fundamentally flawed.
With Cricket already being a small sport, if only three of the member nations start governing the international game, it will be detrimental to the interests of the other member nations as well as the Associate/Affiliate nations. It will affect the overall growth of the game in uncharted territories. Hence I oppose the decision to reorganise the ICC.
I think that this is an obnoxious idea. India, Australia and England combined do not have the worlds best bowler, batsman or allrounder. You will lose even more money as people will not want to watch the same players playing each other and not being challenged enough.
Legitimizing and institutionalizing power in the hands of the self prclaimed "indispensable" troika will only cause irreparable rupture in cricket's fabric. I personally feel this is just a devious and sanctimonious way for the big three to mandate schedules, create slots for their own boondoggle t20 bashes and marginalize cricket everywhere else.
We need change and more democracy; not more power in the pockets of three countries.
My full support to this petition. Shame on the architects of this proposal.
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To the Chief Executives of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia.
This petition calls on you to:
1. Cancel plans for a new ICC Executive Committee with three boards as permanent members.
2. Cancel plans to increase the revenue share of the three proposed permanent members of the Exec Ctte at the expense of the 103 other members.
3. Cancel plans for other measures increasing the power and share of revenue of the BCCI, ECB and CA at the expense of other boards and the good of the game.
The International Cricket Council's strategic plan for 2011-2015 (http://icc-live.s3.amazonaws.com/cms/media/about_docs/518b6b2d624aa-summary_icc_strategic_plan.pdf) clearly states that the organisations values are: Fairness and Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, Teamwork, Respect for diversity, Commitment to the global game and its great spirit. These are clearly not respected by the proposals leaked to the media on 17th January 2014 (http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/710723.html).
The cricketing world is a small one and the game's long-term development cannot be safeguarded when administrators insist on an approach placing self-interest ahead of the wider good of the game The proposals effectively sideline 103 of the ICC's 106 members. Cricket supporters deserve better than that the sport they love be governed by an oligarchical cartel.
Updates
January 24, 2014
The petition has reached 250 signatures. I am drafting a formal letter to the ICC member boards outlining our specific objections to the proposed governance structure and have requested a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss these points.
Reached 250 supporters
January 22, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
January 18, 2014
129 Comments
If this goes through, it will ruin cricket from the top down just as the Premier League has done for football. Have you no sense of responsibility towards the sport?
Proposals are bad for international cricket as it gives effect veto to 3 countries, most of the money goes to India ($588M from current $117M), associates lose out thus damaging development of the sport.
This is just wrong... any proposal that states immunity from relegation for three boards as one of its tenants is fundamentally flawed.
With Cricket already being a small sport, if only three of the member nations start governing the international game, it will be detrimental to the interests of the other member nations as well as the Associate/Affiliate nations. It will affect the overall growth of the game in uncharted territories. Hence I oppose the decision to reorganise the ICC.
I think that this is an obnoxious idea. India, Australia and England combined do not have the worlds best bowler, batsman or allrounder. You will lose even more money as people will not want to watch the same players playing each other and not being challenged enough.
Legitimizing and institutionalizing power in the hands of the self prclaimed "indispensable" troika will only cause irreparable rupture in cricket's fabric. I personally feel this is just a devious and sanctimonious way for the big three to mandate schedules, create slots for their own boondoggle t20 bashes and marginalize cricket everywhere else.
We need change and more democracy; not more power in the pockets of three countries.
My full support to this petition. Shame on the architects of this proposal.
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If this goes through, it will ruin cricket from the top down just as the Premier League has done for football. Have you no sense of responsibility towards the sport?