Then i guess we both are on the same page.

Umm, last i heard they were subsidizing test cricket (Barring for ECB-CA) and contributing funds to ICC's piggy bank, did this situation change in recent times? I wonder what else should they do to earn brownie points.

Needless to say how weak the security of a country when such an attack takes place on a former Prime Minister. Various types of terrorist activities are being conducted in Pakistan since long ago. Which always comes up in the media. Moreover, the heinous terrorist attack on cricket is unprecedented. I think it is logical for anyone to express concern about the security issues for playing cricket in that country. They have to maintain peace and order in the country, Then something of international standard can be planned.

Some interesting developments regarding the election to the post of ICC chairman. Greg Barclay announced that he will run for the post once again, supported by all the pig-4 boards (BCCI, ECB, CA and CNZ). The BCCI actually pulled back the name of Sourav Ganguly, in favor of Barclay. From the other side, Imran Khwaja was initially interested, but he pulled out after it became clear that he doesn't have the necessary support. For the elections, Barclay's opponent would be Tavengwa Mukuhlani, who is representing the smaller test nations and associates.

In all possibility, Barclay will be elected once again, as he seems to have the support of 10-11 members out of the total of 16. Even one associate representative (Pankaj Khimji from Oman) is firmly in the BCCI camp. Mukuhlani needs a miracle to win the race. If Barclay wins again, then there maybe a return to the pig-3 (now pig-4) model of revenue distribution, which was originally implemented by the trio of Narayanaswami Srinivasan, Giles Clarke and Wally Edwards.

Birthday Wishes to the Present Day's King of Cricket, Virat Kohli. On this day I would like to share some of the milestones reached by Virat Kohli through his cricketing career.

• Fastest Indian to reach 1000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, and 10,000 runs in ODIs
• Fastest Indian and second fastest in the world to reach 10, 15, 20, and 25 centuries in ODIs
• Only batsman in history with average 50+ in Tests, ODIs, and T20Is simultaneously
• Fastest to reach 30 and 35 centuries in ODIs
• Second fastest in the world to reach 1,000 runs in T20Is

• First Indian cricketer to score three successive centuries in ODIs
• Fastest to reach 15,000 international runs
• Fastest to score 17,000 runs in international cricket (363 innings)
• First batsman to reach 6000 runs in IPL.
• Virat Kohli holds the record for the fewest innings(462 innings) to reach 22000 International runs followed by Sachin Tendulkar who took 493 innings to achieve this feat.
• First Indian cricketer to cross 10,000 T20 runs.

Those mentioned were a small list and the list turns to be even big if his entire career records were listed.[/list]

Happy birthday Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli was born on 5th November 1998Now he is getting old 34 years. From the day he joined Indian cricket, Indian cricket found a new star. He has many records next to his name for Indian cricket which no cricketer has been able to do so far. Till now he is playing cricket in that great form He plays cricket as if cricket is an art to him. He adapts to whatever format he needs to adapt to. I wish Virat Kohli a long life and hope you connect him with something better in his cricketing career in the future. the

If it was up to BCCI then they would've liked a PIG-1 system where they alone taking a lion share but it's not possible at all unless they take some drastic steps, which no one would like.

There is no big 4 bhai. it's only Ind+Aus+Eng.

Now there are news that India has refused to play Asia cup in Pakistan
I don't know what is wrong with Indian. Very bad behaviour by BCCI

I would prefer a pig-1 system when compared to pig-4. Let ECB and CA get a taste of their own medicine. I would still use the term pig-4, because CNZ is more rabid than any of the other three cricket boards in their hatred towards the associate nations. And as a reward for their hatred, they have their guy as the chairman of the ICC. For the elections, Barclay will be having the confirmed support from India, NZ, Australia, England and Oman. CSA went with the pig-4 last time in the second round. WICB and Afghanistan Cricket Board may also go with pig-4.

Guess it'll become a reality soon.

I don't count them in this group as NZC hardly gets any benefit from the Barclay, if that was the case then NZC would be getting a regular bilateral series from the BIG-3. They do play with England but playing against Aus and India is very rare.

The rhetorical response is not going to help it.

Take another ex; Shakib was not out today but the umpire gave him out. Does that mean ICC deliberately helped Pakistan? No, it was just a dumb call from the 3rd umpire. No one making any fuss about it. Hope you get the gist.

Off-the-field politics is a different matter and you like it or not, it's there to stay due to a power struggle but when teams are playing or competing on the ground, ICC can't do shit.

Do Umpires make mistakes? Yeah, they do and it's bound to happen, sometimes decisions benefit one team sometimes the opposition.

Fans and experts have a choice, keep playing the victim cards/look for conspiracy theories or simply move on. The majority opt for the latter.

Even this all is useless, and we are talking about things which are not going to happen in this sports organization with mostly boards are looking for their own stakes and benefits but here we can do few things which may be ended in a big failure or beneficial for all like in above posts someone saying one big option is also good even not possible, but they can go ahead with this with just India is in position to do things like this because they are alone superpower in cricket due to their market and revenue share, so they have to pursue all give them vote for their supremacy or wait for the consequences of they will not give any share of their market to any one even it's just daytime dream but for me can happen.

In other case we have to accept all big partners on equal basis like we need to have 10 boards as full and all others as associate with half vote and give them share after their performance in all year which could be better top ten have their share bigger than ten mean top twenty can go with good amount and others are as things going which could be brought better end of this all issues and every time we have president after two years which will came through by votes.