ICC plans to make the World T20 a 12-team event

The annual meet of the International Cricket Council (ICC) passed over an agenda stating that the subsequent edition of the World T20 would be expanded to 12 teams as opposed to the 10 team tournament that took part in the recently concluded World T20 2016 in India. Dave Richardson, the CEO of the ICC stated that there was a sense of ‘optimism’ over whether the major change would be ratified at the conference and kick-start a more inclusive and equitable era in international cricket.

According to reports on ESPNCricinfo, two teams are likely to be added to the main draw of the reinstated World Twenty20 in 2018 which would create a Super 12 style tournament. This also comes as a move to satisfy the associate nations who took part in the recently concluded World T20. Moreover, with the likes of the Netherlands and Scotland complaining about the lack of international cricket, this will certainly be a move that will be welcomed.

Moreover, one of the major aspects of the conference included the ‘Big Three’. The ‘Big Three’ model was introduced in 2014 which saw the three nations India, Australia, and England award themselves Lion’s share of the television revenues made by the ICC. “(There is) a mood to address what happened two years ago (the conference that ratified the Big Three),” Richardson said on Monday. “We are a body that addresses 105 members.”

This move will witness a much more centralized theme wherein the entire governance of the ICC will certainly be restructured. While that appears a way off, three Associates representatives on the ICC are set to have full voting privileges, according to ESPNCricinfo.

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