I am really not expecting any improvement in the funding for the associate countries. If anything I am actually expecting it to reduce. And that's because the ICC absolutely does not care about the funding of the associate countries. I heard that ICC was trying to decide whether they will give the money according to the success of the team. That is not bad because it will convince the team to perform better. But the problem is if that happens a lot of associate teams with native players are going to be ignored. And that really should not happen as it will destroy the improvement of the popularity of cricket. ICC should soon realize that cricket cannot be restricted to 10 or 12 teams from now on. To save cricket the number of teams has to increase and so does the funding of associate teams.