When India won the 1983 World Cup, BCCI did not get tickets to watch the final match and with the help of the then government and the sponsorship of Ambani, India along with Pakistan was able to bring the World Cup out of England in 1987, if not England and Australia dominated Cricket and they never bothered about other countries. BCCI especially Salve who was the BCCI president then was determined to take the power of the ICC away from England and they have done that because they were humiliated by the ICC in rejecting two tickets requested by the BCCI to watch the 1983 Finals.
So anyone crying about the powers in Cricket, check out the history and then cry about it  .
When Sri Lanka won the 1996 World Cup majority of the players were sponsored by Arjuna Ranatunga who i consider as one the greatest captains in World Cricket and ICC did not shower them money, from minnows to World Champions were their sole hard work and many of the players during that period was staying with Arjuna Ranatunga because they did not have a place to stay nor the money. So to cry about other nations are not developing Cricket because ICC is not helping is just bullshit. The board has to take the initiatives to find talents or you need a captain that could take that role to develop the quality of players and you cannot expect anyone to bring everything in a golden platter.

Actually, I don’t understand. So you are happy that this is happening?

I know what has happened to India and Sri Lanka was not the most desirable thing but that does not justify them having control over ICC right now. It feels like you are quite happy to see India being in the driver's seat because you are an Indian. But that would not be fair to the other teams. India has enormous power over ICC and so do the other 3 in big4. But that is the only reason why cricket is not expanding worldwide.

Only if the teams, the cricket board which is in power, as well as the ICC came together and thought about the game instead of making money and the big teams thinking of themselves as valuable items could this game flourish.

Honestly, I don’t even blame the big four at the moment. Because everyone wants to be in power when they get the taste of it. However, ICC handled everything so poorly that it feels like they are not in charge at the moment.

ICC is kept as a dancing doll. Whenever the big 4 comes up with a plan, ICC starts to dance according to the order provided. This won't change in a short, because these people to have control over the entire sport keeps cricket in a way that it is played on specific locations and hasn't taken forward.

ICC is kept as a dancing doll. Whenever the big 4 comes up with a plan, ICC starts to dance according to the order provided. This won't change in a short, because these people to have control over the entire sport keeps cricket in a way that it is played on specific locations and hasn't taken forward.

Here we need to know who are the managing committee in ICC? ? Where they come from? These answer will clarify where is the problem? Politics is everywhere in today's world, when these Politics are applied to any organization, it can no longer function as it should. Cricket would have reached a better place today if there was no favoritism by the senior officials of the ICC in cricket.

Cricket is as old as other popular games like football and rugby but the point is cricket even a century old game is limited to 8 test playing teams only? Who is responsible for this mess. If you dig deep then it's very much clear that icc and big 3 don't want more countries to join in.

Completely agreed. Cricket is rapidly shifting from a country-based structure to a franchise-based structure. This happened with football many decades ago. Anyway, I am not going to mourn about the death of bilateral cricket. Apart from a few exceptions, it has become too boring. The pig-4 may still continue with the bilateral games. But if franchise cricket becomes even more popular, then smaller boards such as WICB, CSA and BCB will find difficulty in forcing the players to give preference to the national team instead of the franchises.

I don't care about white ball bilateral cricket either (i'm satisfied with T-20, ODI wc after 2 and 4 years) but yeah if new setup affecting test format then there may be some outcry from the old guards.

Although we have to wait more as jury still out on this new realities, it's going to be very painful for the cricket boards but players would be biggest beneficiary.

I personally feel that this is a right step, because not all boards can afford to pay their player’s or give them the platform too grow and if these franchise’s pay these player’s then I see nothing wrong with it.

Furthermore I expect many ex and current player’s to revolt against this plan, but in the long run I feel that it’ll do wonders for the cricket world. However there’s just one point bothering me, what if this move increases match fixing which we often feel happens in IPL, what do you think about this?.