Lol, always hilarious to look at these team's roaster. It seems like local teams from India and Pakistan are playing against each other in some C- Grade club tournament.
It tells you how ICC works in general, they just want to tap the potential market, and that's it. Spreading the game is the last thing on their mind but will surely do all the virtue signaling.
Agreed, the two teams having majority of the Indian and Pakistan players give such a look. Just went through the match details between the two teams, even the pics resemble it to be a match between two Asian teams, there is no touch of America.
ICC wants to bring the grown countries into cricket. It works on it, and succeeded in it. Similar is the scenario of Canada cricket team.
I think it's high time that we can conclude that Cricket is a game of Asians and it cannot be popular in the western world. Yes, if ICC wants to introduce more teams like USA or Canada, they won't be able to find native players in the team. However, there are many immigrants in these countries from India and Pakistan, who will make full use of this situation and will try to represent these countries.
If ICC makes rules that only native players need to be included in the national team, then the situation can be different but then where will these nations get the native players