Stupid institute with their dumb rules, not to mention level of greediness.
Qualification process for ICC tournament is more like fixed campaign. Full members face virtually no hurdles at all, 80-90% teams get direct entry due to ranking and ICC make qualification process very hard for associate members. Also they don't want to increase the number of teams in the tourney (because of bad experience on revenue), which doesn't help the associate member's cause.
Subcontinent Women's teams have one thing in common, fitness standards.
The problem is ICC is not concentrating on how to make cricket great, they are concentrating on how to get more money out of this game.
Yes, we know that money might help the game become a lot of white spread and popular eventually but there are a lot of other factors which ICC is absolutely avoiding. Once I had high hopes for cricket to be a well-known sport worldwide but now I have kind of lost my hope.
I think The problem with most subcontinent women's cricket teams is that they are just a little fond of ease. And that is a big barrier that they will have to overcome if they want to play at the top level of women's cricket.
Had anyone noticed
ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 is in progress at Dubai. Oman and UAE are leading the points table, both these teams have players from South Asian countries while team like Nepal who is 100% made up of local players is sitting at second last position. ICC must encourage team of native players only.
What kind of rule do you expect ICC to come up against teams like Dubai and Oman, i am not expecting them to come up with any rule that would harm them as they are playing with expats for decades and it is highly unlikely they will change that because majority of the citizens from these countries are expats and settled down in UAE or Oman after the oil boom and their population is really small.
I really don't think that this is a problem because they are obviously the citizens of that country. It would be a problem to me if it was otherwise. But right now I don't see any problem.
And, if ICC makes any rules to force the countries to make their team with native players, I think it will be a maximum of one year, and after that those teams will not exist in the cricketing world. Already there are very few teams in cricket.