Sydney: The World Cup should be a "shop-window" not "window-dressing" for the game's emerging nations, International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson said yesterday.


David Richardson 

The ICC has come under fire for plans to reduce the number of teams taking part at the next World Cup, in England in 2019, from 14 teams to 10 — a move that threatens to freeze out non-Test or Associate member nations from the showpiece one-day event. However, Richardson — who in a previous interview with AFP said the decision on the number of teams at the 2019 World Cup could be revisited — insisted the ICC were committed to the long-term development of Associate cricket.