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Well.. I posted about this a few weeks back. In the end, a lot depends on funding. During the previous funding cycle, associate nations were allotted around $62.5 million per year, which was divided up among the 100 or so national boards. Based on the performance, teams such as Netherlands received a larger share compared to bottom ranked boards such as Maldives and Myanmar. However for the 2015-23 funding cycle, this allocation was reduced to $20 million per year. The reduction amounted to 70%. Obviously we can't expect things to remain the same when that happens.
We can also see that the quality of those teams have also reduced. That reduction started during that time. When ICC reduced the allotted funds by a huge margin. It is not clear to me why ICC did that. Before we could see a lot of teams, smaller teams/associated teams coming forward and performing well. But after that reduction now it is hardly seen.
Now it's all going to be ended because most chances as franchise leagues are going to be operated then surely ICC is going to have some issues which are tough challenge for them to settle with this now they need to do some better things for good future because if they are not able to have any suitable system for them surely these countries are going to suffer badly even few can lose their current level as well.
Cut down from big amount to very less mean in future they can take more action and these countries can suffer more loses countries like the Netherlands, Maldives and Myanmar have no good income source which is also going to hurt them badly with just few will be able to have better income from their domestic sources.
There are a lot of countries that absolutely depend on the funds they get from the ICC. Because in those countries lifestyle is very difficult. People don’t make enough money. So it is very challenging to imagine them spending money on cricket instead of spending money on something more meaningful and worthwhile in their life. As a result, ICC is taking these decisions because they are not getting enough revenue from these countries. But that’s what made things worse.