Ali Bacher slams India, Australia and England's dominance over world cricket

Ali Bacher, the former president of Cricket South Africa, has criticised the dominance of Indian, Australian, and English cricket boards over world cricket. With India, Australia, and England generating the majority of the revenue, the decisions taken by ICC are generally always in the favour of the ’top three’ board. Bacher said that the current scenario is not good for cricket as other prominent boards have been “marginalised”. “When I was the chairman of ICC’s development committee, my objective was to spread the game. It’s not happening today. Cricket today is dominated by India, Australia, England. South Africa has been marginalised, Pakistan has been marginalised, West Indies has been marginalised. That’s not good,” Bacher told news agency PTI. “You need to grow the game. The problem is that finance of world cricket is dominated by India and 70 per cent of world cricket money comes through India from whatever direction. I would like to see development of smaller nations, that was my profound passion,” he added. The former cricket administrator was also not happy with ICC’s efforts to popularise the sport in the USA. The 2024 T20 World Cup is being co-hosted by the USA, but Bacher feels that spreading cricket in the USA will be an expensive affair. “You need billions and billions of dollars to get a small niche of that (USA) market. To be honest, I called it a day after two occasions. It wasn’t going to happen. The way it should happen is, growth of cricket should be in Asia. There is enormous potential. Not in the USA as its far too expensive,” he explained.