The Story of the Day Cricket became a Democracy | World Cup Chronicles

The Intriguing Story of when a political coup made ICC - break from their colonial cricket roots, India Challenging England for the crown of Cricket

The Veto that had been established in 1909 by the MCC that was put in place to make sure the powers of the British empire remained untouched, through chiefly their main colonies of Australia & South Africa

But it would come under fire in 1982
As India along with Pakistan and Sri Lanka challenged England for hosting the 1996 world cup

Put in play was a brilliant political move from South Africa
That had rejoined Cricket after the abolishing of Apartheid rules
And asked for more democracy

It was followed by tremendous strategic masterstroke by the 3 Asian countries to put it into vote
Making sure that their financial bid would take all associate countries to their side.
But a vote change in 1989 meant
That even if Australia had used that exact same tactic to win the 1992 world cup hosting bid
India could not do so
Needing a 2/3rd majority of full members
Along with the support of a founding members

And that led to a grueling 13 hour long meeting
That was as volatile as it was fractious as it could be
Where tempers ran high and both sides lobbed accusations at each other
Where the minutiae of law, ethics, morale and the very soul of the gentleman's game was called into question

From involving the chief justice of a supreme court
To involving the media into the war
From blames of bribery to slipperiness
To straight up hypocrisy, irony and double standards with which the mainly white countries ran the global organization

To even the scandals and controversies that erupted when both sides blamed each other for the security, standard and even their long suffering history

Ultimately causing ICC
The imperial cricket Conference
Which later became the international cricket council
To be changed forever

This story is about the 6 months period when the old world with its antiquated rules was completely dethroned
Giving rise to a new power
Which in future was to be the center of cricket
This is the story of when Jagmohan Dalmiya, IS Bindra, and Scindia
All of them future BCCI presidents and ICC chairman
In combination with Imran khan, The Pakistani world cup winning captain
Future Pakistani PM and the representative of PCB
Along with Neil Parerra the Sri Lankan cricket board prudent

brought the ICC to its knees

This is the story of when Cricket was changed
Forever.


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