Yes that is excellent news, if it indeed the removal of the dictator Srinivasm due to this IPL scandal causes the DRS to be implemented
But the ICC needs to still be revamped to be a strong governing body away from BCCI influence. There will be and is still other things in world cricket that needs a strong ICC to sort out, that BCCI bullying if they don't like it can still hinder progress.
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I'm not taking this down a tit for tat arguement. you can happily read many cricket historians condem the introspection and lack of democracy the ICC was run with prior to the 1990s. a large proportion of them english. it's widely accepted as fact.
I never debated this fact, i just said that the MCC should have made the ICC more global after the Packer ordeal, but Packer 2.0 (Lalit Modi) and the BCCI grew in its financial power in the mid 90s.
you are swinging in defense of allowing apartheid while calling blocking the DRS and IPL window corruption and manipulation. I just can't have an arguement along those lines because to me, it's utterly self-evident which is worse. the ICC represented 7 nations, 3 non-white, and those 3 had a much larger combined population than the other 4. the FIFA comparison doesn't hold water because south africa were a footballing irrelevance, in cricket they were a world power and if the ICC was acting democratically then it should acknowledge the significant ethnic diversity of it's members by blocking racist states.
food poisoning? boo hoo. weren't we sending soldiers, governers, traders for like a century before when we were colonising the place? seemed to manage ok then.
I am not defending apartheid by any means. All i'm saying is that from a world perspective before the 1970s the world was very racist towards blacks and coloured people. Whether its how black people were treated in England during the "windrush" era by various conservative governments.
McCarthyism and the fight over in america by martin luther and malcom X. Aparthied going on and tolerated for years, so whether cricket and football establishments took longer than the IOC (all were run by whites) to ban S Africa from sports to meet is a moot point and is no real reason to critique the ICC.
I dont know what colonising has anything to do with the strong likelihood that cricket territories like were really not fit for hosting world cups infrastructure wise possibly until the late 80s (India) and mid 2000s (windies).
This is likely why probably in 1987 cup India/PAK combined, although currently India, SRI especially for SC countries can easily host a W-Cup/world tournament on their own.
Australia & NZ could have hosted the w-cups in 79 & 83 but i never hear them complain about not getting it until 1992. But i have heard AUS/NZ complain that India got the W-Cup in 2011 instead of them.
You can only hope that this opens the eyes to not CSA but the rest of cricket world boards, that they can't go on forever letting the BCCI behaving this this. They need grow some bloody balls to stand up to these fools.
