BCCI ICC Saga More ICC changes to to cut BCCI's Clout:Full Membership no longer permanent under proposed changes

[Malcolm Merlyn]

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Full Membership of the ICC will no longer be a permanent right but instead a privilege up for review every five years, under proposed sweeping changes to the constitution of cricket's governing body.

In a plan that will open up the game to emergent nations such as Ireland and Afghanistan, while also placing pressure on struggling nations such as Zimbabwe and even West Indies, the ICC's executive board resolved at its February round of meetings in Dubai to push ahead with a fundamental redrawing of the level of accountability faced by Full Members.

In an email circulated among ICC members and obtained by ESPNcricinfo, the proposal from the ICC's governance working group demonstrates how the concept of Full Membership is to be opened up. And now that there will only be two types of membership - Affiliate membership is to be removed - Associate nations will also need to adhere to stricter membership criteria. They will have their status reviewed every two years, but with far greater incentives for doing so - there is now a clear pathway to Full Membership and its attendant advantages.

"Full Member status is not enshrined forever," the email states. "A Full Member may be re-classified as an Associate Member upon the recommendation of the Membership Committee where it fails to meet the Retention Criteria."

While the Executive Committee, or ExCo, synonymous with the "Big Three" changes of 2014 is to be disbanded, a new and influential Membership Committee will be raised to deal specifically with membership compliance and decisions on whether to elevate Associate nations to Full Membership or demote current Full Members to Associate level. This "MemCom", which will include both Full Member and Associate representatives, is to be empowered to decide on applications independent of the executive board.

"All applications for a new, enhanced or reclassification (demotion) of Membership will be conducted by a committee separate from the Executive Board. The essence of the MemCom's role will be to objectively apply the criteria and make a decision on the application.

"The Board's role will be limited to ensuring that due process has been observed by MemCom. This process ensures the elimination of any prejudices, bias or 'politics' of Board Members in the consideration of any application. The new Constitution will also provide for regular reviews of the membership criteria to ensure that Members are compliant, failing which they may be reclassified.

"In short, a Full Member is no longer guaranteed his status forever. All membership and the continuation of the membership will be on merit. A review of membership compliance of the criteria will take place every five years for Full Members and every two years for Associates."

The email did not spell out what criteria for the two memberships will be, saying only that "new, detailed and objective Membership Criteria have been developed. These criteria and the utilization of the Membership Committee aim to make the processes around dealing with the membership matters objective, transparent and free from political influence."

One of the main criteria, however, is likely to be some degree of financial transparency. The ICC will withhold funding from members unless they provide information on their finances, as well as how it is spent. The ICC will also retain the right to request members for an independent audits where applicable.

The executive board of the ICC, meanwhile, is to be expanded to 15 directors, including the chairmen of the 10 Full Member nations, three chairmen of Associate nations, the independent ICC chairman and one other independent director who will be female. The Associate chairmen and the new independent female director will all have full voting rights, with a two-thirds majority required to carry the vote. Provision will also be made for the use of secret ballots when required, meaning board members will no longer need to stare down each other when voting.

The working group has also proposed a reduction in the number of committees, proposing "more debate and decision-making for the Board." But on important committees such as Finance and MemCom, they propose adding an Associate representative.

A new-look Development Committee will now be headed by, effectively, a Chairman of the Associates. The committee will be "constituted by the 7-Elected Reps (including the Global Regional representative) and 2 Full Member Representatives. The Chairman of the Development Committee will as of right be the Chairman of the Associates. This will result in more autonomous decision-making by Associates for Associates (subject to Board's approval, of course)." As with the post of ICC chairman, the Associate chairman will also be an independent official.

These changes are being proposed alongside a new financial model for ICC tournament revenue that will re-cut the pie rather differently to the model adapted in 2014 - a project of particular concern for the governing body's chairman Shashank Manohar, who has been a vocal critic of the "Big Three" structure enshrined three years ago.

They were agreed to in-principle by the ICC executive board at recent meetings, though the boards of India and Sri Lanka were notable objectors. The new landscape will face more debate at the next round of quarterly meetings in April, before their first chance for formal ratification at the ICC annual conference in June.

Other work on league structures for international cricket is also progressing, with models for Test, ODI and T20I championships being approved in principle for introduction from 2019 onwards.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/1083806.html

[Malcolm Merlyn]

ICC is going full ahead to destory BCCI's clout and anyone who supports them.

 

1.The MeM Com will be independent of the ICC committee and can takeaway any country's full rights,without the ICC committee voting on it.So the present movers of the proposal will dominate the ICC forever and punish anyone who tries to go againist them by simply removing their full membership.Zimbabwe a BCCI supporter will face the heat first.This is just carnage.This is ECB trying to take control of ICC with the help off Manohar.

 

2.What is an Independent Director?Will that director have no citizenship?Will she not vote where the interests of her country lies?

 

There is no option for BCCI but to withdraw from CT and try and break the ICC.

[Cricketics]

6 minutes ago, Malcolm Merlyn said:

There is no option for BCCI but to withdraw from CT and try and break the ICC.

No. You are exaggerating. Why would they even think of taking away full membership of India? 

[Malcolm Merlyn]

2 minutes ago, Cricketics said:

No. You are exaggerating. Why would they even think of taking away full membership of India? 

Not India,but smaller boards like SL/ZIM etc who support BCCI and have been supporting BCCI since long.They will be threatened with taking away their membership if they dont fall in line and support the WHITE boards.

[sandeep]

6 minutes ago, Stumped said:

The ability to remove a team from full status is clearly being put in place so they have grounds to demote Ireland/Afghanistan if either of them flop hugely and carry on declining for years after getting test status (which they will do in the next year).

Its  clear that the ECB and its allies are trying to change the structure of the ICC for political purposes.   This is just one move amongst many.  

 

There is no way to justify that a committee that decides how ICC revenues are to be handled excludes India - which generates the bulk of the revenue.  

[Malcolm Merlyn]

8 minutes ago, Stumped said:

The ability to remove a team from full status is clearly being put in place so they have grounds to demote Ireland/Afghanistan if either of them flop hugely and carry on declining for years after getting test status (which they will do in the next year).

 

That has to be voted on by ICC committee.Few members of the MemCom dont have the right to decide the fate of nations.The MeMCom will likely contain the supporters of the present regime,CA/ECB/NZC and will threaten boards with expulsion if they dont do their bidding.

[Malcolm Merlyn]

1 minute ago, sandeep said:

Its  clear that the ECB and its allies are trying to change the structure of the ICC for political purposes.   This is just one move amongst many.  

 

There is no way to justify that a committee that decides how ICC revenues are to be handled excludes India - which generates the bulk of the revenue.  

 

They are really going for the full monty to concentrate the power in their hands.With BCCI in limbo no one is there to challenge them and rally the smaller boards.

[sandeep]

16 minutes ago, Stumped said:

Or it's simply being done because adding multiple new countries to full membership (as is part of the proposal) with full voting privileges and the ability to play test matches would be silly without adding a clause for removal if they show financial or cricketing based incompetence. 

That's BS.  Plenty of boards have been mismanaged their affairs in the past.  Lot of questions can be asked about financial incompetence of the even the ECB and how many soft loans the local county administrations are currently saddled with.   Reality is that the current voting structure has been gamed successfully by the BCCI, so that it can prevent the "Project Snow" alumni from dictating terms.  That old guard sees a golden opportunity to cut down the BCCI to size, but its a limited time window.  Hence the unseemly rush to ram thrugh structural and procedural changes quickly before they are properly reviewed or discussed - either by the media or by the ICC members.  Are you familiar with Project Snow, Mr "Stumped"?  

 

Explain to me how it makes sense to exclude Indian cricket representation from the committee that decides how the ICC revenue is to be distributed?  

 

Why does Giles Clarke suddenly have this love for cricket in Pakistan, to the extent where he felt the need to issue a public statement of support for holding the PSL final in Lahore, in the face of  hundreds of people dying in multiple terrorist incidents there in the last 10 days?  

 

These are all political moves, made in the name of "improving" cricket.   If they wanted to improve cricket, why does the new revenue model abolish the test cricket fund that was created in 2014?  Any good reason for that?  

[Vilander]

The writing is clear on the wall, enjoy the India -Aus tests as much as you can - we probably will have less and less of these. 

[Malcolm Merlyn]

44 minutes ago, Vilander said:

The writing is clear on the wall, enjoy the India -Aus tests as much as you can - we probably will have less and less of these. 

Or this may have given the BCCI just the opening it needed.

[Skippy]

Why should Zimbabwe have permanent full status?

[Tom]

ICC is playing into BCCI's hand. BCCI can now easily get 4 members( Ban, SL, WI and Zim) on their side. These are the boards who would be worried about Full member status. They will support BCCI.

Go BCCI..Go India..

[Malcolm Merlyn]

45 minutes ago, Skippy said:

Why should Zimbabwe have permanent full status?

 

Why should Afghanistan or Ireland have full status?

[sandeep]

 

Why should Afghanistan or Ireland have full status?

 

Ireland's case is especially weak. They are a side filled with aging veterans and already losing quite a bit. They are arguably this generation's Kenya. Just a different shade though, and not just the ODI uniforms.

 

 

[Malcolm Merlyn]

 

Ireland's case is especially weak. They are a side filled with aging veterans and already losing quite a bit. They are arguably this generation's Kenya. Just a different shade though, and not just the ODI uniforms.

 

 

 

This is a massive fraud going on at ICC.BCCI has to stop it and the only way is to cut off the finances.Quit CT and every other ICC tournament.

[horizonspeaks]

There are worse things in the proposal that you missed. The voting will be on secret ballot from now on. So no one will know who voted against you and who is in favor. This is called transparency!

[horizonspeaks]

1 hour ago, Malcolm Merlyn said:

 

This is a massive fraud going on at ICC.BCCI has to stop it and the only way is to cut off the finances.Quit CT and every other ICC tournament.

Absolutely agree. For a change, just propose dropping out of a few tournaments ... that should work.

[BeautifulGame]

There are worse things in the proposal that you missed. The voting will be on secret ballot from now on. So no one will know who voted against you and who is in favor. This is called transparency!

 

That is transparency .

 

That's why voting secrecy in democracy.Just look at the length EC goes to ensure voting secrecy in polling booths.

[horizonspeaks]

1 hour ago, BeautifulGame said:

 

That is transparency .

 

That's why voting secrecy in democracy.Just look at the length EC goes to ensure voting secrecy in polling booths.

 

ICC is not a democracy! It's a member's club. If they have considered all 105 member equal right, I could have called it a democracy. 

[TheWall]

Soon ICC will be seen with a begging bowl....