This edition of the world cup doesn't look very exciting to me. Last time, it was 14 teams, and this time it has been reduced to 10. Out of the 10 teams, five are from the South Asian region. There is hardly any diversity. And the biggest irony is that the decision to reduce the number of participants was made after Bangladesh knocked out India and Ireland destroyed Pakistan during the 2007 CWC. Since there are no minnows, the ICC hopes that the main market (India) will remain at least till the semi-final stage. Goes against the spirit of the game. They should make a rule that India will qualify to the next stage even if they lose all the matches in the group stage.
Let me make clear that I am in Full favor of more team playing in the World Cup.
If ICCI ruling Associate members out of the World Cup tournament then there are many valid reasons,
Right or Wrong we can discuss anytime. Financial is one of them and arguably comes at the top, and other reasons revolve around finance you like or not and
With due respect to your opinion, there was no need of dragging India here in this discussion
without offering any solution.
You are accusing that ICCI decision is favoring Indian team directly or indirectly, which is ridiculous, Indian fans or India not stopping others from watching a game by any chance. There are high chances that you read some English report in English media about 2007 world cup failure and repeating the same here. This "
Blaming India" game started from there if you don't know.
How many Associate member's Full matches have you watched till date? 1-2 or 5 which I highly doubt. and I am talking about on TV not live from Stadium. If your answer is 0 then think again who is the real defaulter here before dragging India in this discussion.Indians love to watch cricket, and we have been watching the Indian team playing when every team used to shit on us by beating us on the ground or by their behavior. Can give you at least 10 incident with details ( on the field and off the ground incidents) but that would make the post very long.