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It really is something I have no idea about even if someone outside India or Pakistan becomes the new Chairman of the ICC, they are not allowed to talk about the big four countries. I think anyone from India, Australia, New Zealand, or England is inclined to hope for the best of the big four. At this point, I think even the International Cricket Council might be in favor of this happening.
It is also my impression that I and a lot of other people like me are very concerned about the new ICC Chairman working honestly. At this point, I personally do not care who comes and sits on the chair at the moment. As long as he is honest, he has a good chance of getting the job. For some reason, I believe that this is the one criterion that no one is going to be able to fulfill.
Overall agree with the sentiments but want to correct on 1 small thing.
There are no BIG-4 (Definitely not NZ) in the cricketing world financially, only BIG-3 (Ind, Eng, Aus).
But yes other cricketing boards want to enter this club due to the financial benefits which are related to big Bilateral series deals. Most cricket boards avoid expressing this openly because they hardly put anything on the table, except PCB ( most of the time due to entitlement and sometimes due to genuine reasons when it comes to BCCI).
The next ICC chairman shouldn't be from India or Pakistan but some other country.
Because if someone from India takes the chair then that individual could potentially start a discussion of PIG-3 type model again (financially).
And if Rambo becomes the head then he'll surely push for PIG-4 series model, he was very vocal about it in the ICC meetings.
Pig-3 model was thrown in the dust-bin a few years ago and I don't think that it will be possible to revive it no matter how much the BCCI, ECB and CA try. By now the lower tier test nations have realized the danger in having the pig-3 financial model, and all of them are solidly against that idea. And the voting structure of ICC has also changed, giving two additional slots to Afghanistan and Ireland. For the pig-3 nations, it won't be easy to garner the required majority (9 out of 16 votes) for any such proposal.
Never say never.
I've mentioned this to you earlier that there is narrative building in BCCI regarding the existing revenue model due to the recent media rights auction. This discussion could take place once ICC concludes the bidding process and reveals the numbers in Dec this year.
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Just to be clear can you tell who is "Rambo" and who is included in "PIG-4" ?
As far as i know, PIG 3 included England, Australia and India, Right
So who is that extra country in PIG four?
Rambo is the nickname of Ramiz.
Yeah PIG -3 (BIG-3) group includes Eng, Aus, Ind.
PIG-4 concept is based on Ramiz's pet project of quadrilateral series (Limited overs) among Ind + Aus + Eng + Pak. ICC never favors any quadrilateral series, Ganguly had similar ideas of Ind + Eng+Aus + any country on a rotation basis (minus Pakistan).