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If you look at the governing bodies for other sports, you can see that most of them are being administered by former players (FIFA, FIBA, FIH.etc). However, the case with ICC is different. Out of the 16 presidents and 4 chairmen till date, almost all of them have been businessmen with no link to cricket.
If these sports bodies are looking for improving the game then they should give opportunities for former players who are capable enough and i am certain you can find more than a dozen capable candidates from former players and putting them to improve the sports will go a long way.
The biggest joke was when Sharad Pawar (an Indian politician) became the president of the ICC. Nowadays cricket has become a very rich sport with annual turnover of billions of USD. And unfortunately, this has become a curse as well.
It looks like BCCI and its money power, if not how can jokes like these happen. All the sports organisation are there to make money and that attracts people from different sectors and may be that is what we are seeing here.