There has been more criticism than support of the draft proposal put up by India, England and Australia, now known as the Big Three in world cricket, which aims at these three cricket boards getting a larger share of the International Cricket Council revenue.

Sample these figures that ESPN Cricinfo put out in an article on Wednesday and you will probably understand the level of the big bullies factor which lesser nations will have to cope with on the table of cricket power: “In its last cycle the ICC reported US$1,564 million in revenue. If revenue stayed roughly the same going forward, the cost savings outlined above would find their way into the big three’s pockets, the BCCI taking some $63 million. In other words, the likes of Estonia and Peru will not play any international cricket, so the world’s richest cricket board will have an extra $63 million to pay some of the world’s richest athletes.”