UAE is associate country but still they are having too many matches with just because of UAE influence in ICC, but this is not good as they are having no native players and their grass root sporting system is also not ideal for this game which is having not good chance of improved quality and performance with Afghanistan is surely one of the best rising teams in Asia and World with their few quality spinners and few good batsmen even they are also not able to play at home but still doing good development, and we can have good future of this game in this country their recent performance in World Cup is also impressive which is indicating things will be on positive side for the development.
There are more deserving associate nations out there, such as Nepal, Netherlands and Namibia. But it is the United Arab Emirates who always get matches against the full member nations, because of their fat pockets and dominance in the ICC. And even then, no one comes to watch their matches. Even their own players are not interested in the cricket team because all of them are citizens of either India or Pakistan and their moral support is for these teams. In the end, no one cares about these matches, and they are just for the record.
I have to agree with this all but now as we are heading for the professionalism in this game and franchise specially these Arabs are investing look like moral or dignity could be stayed in only books and no one will care about this all because money is going to change things, and surely we are going to this way with no one can stop this all as we all know checking how SPL is changing the way in soccer even they are currently able to bring old players but still their money is creating changes, and they are doing this all, so things like these will happen in cricket as well.
ICC is just a puppet organization which is having no worth and weak boards will also not able to survive just few strong enough boards will be survived and able to compete with this, all others have to be gone down and stay in dark age if ICC not able to bring any solid policy for this all.