It seems that Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is in no mood to resist against Big Three as a report says the South Asian board accepts the revised proposals for the restructure of the ICC after securing the assurance that their Test status will not be revoked.
With this development, if true, the Big Three are one vote away from the number required to push through constitutional amendments in order that the revamp be completed in full.
“BCB has stood firm on [not agreeing] to the two-tier format…but they have agreed upon the position paper,” a BCB official confirmed to an official cricket website ESPNCricinfo on Wednesday, referring to the two-tier format that would automatically put the No. 9 and 10 teams in the ICC rankings outside the existing group of eight Test playing nations.
The lack of clarity as to whether the BCB had signed off on the guiding principles or on the resolutions pertaining to the amendments, with the official saying the board had not put pen to paper, took the Big Three a step closer to gaining greater control of the ICC’s functioning and its revenues.
It now leaves the cricket boards of Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka as the only three who have made it clear that their “support” for the ICC’s key principles as announced on Tuesday still remained subject to approval by their home boards.
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