Even as the associate teams seem to have won the first half of the battle, Australia is likely to oppose the move to maintain matters as status quo in the forthcoming edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup.
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Australia would be cohosting the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 along with New Zealand, and they are certainly with the ICC on the stance of having the ten Test playing nations play in the next edition.
The ICC had ruled against the immediate participation of the associate teams, restricting the next editions' team numbers to only ten. With no qualification process in place, there is no chance for the associate teams to participate in it, which has led to much consternation, particularly amongst teams like Ireland and Netherlands.
Ireland, in fact, even threatened to take matters further and as the behest of the ICC president, Sharad Pawar, filed their appeal for the President to ask the ICC Executive Board to reconsider their original ruling.
Deeming it harmful to their development, Ireland have cited their run in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 as proof of their improvement. However, not everyone sees it as such.
Commercial matters appear to have dictated whether teams such as Ireland deserve a place in the tournament. And it would seem that the Australian cricket set up is interested in keeping the number to ten even if it violates the basic principle of having as many international teams as possible in a world event.
Cricket Australia are of the opinion that only the best of the cricket teams should be competing in a premier event and therefore, do not think it is in cricket's and the tournament's best interests for the ICC to consider the request of the associate nations.
But not all the cricketers or cricket boards share the same view, and it should be an interesting discussion when the matter does come up in front of the board, caught in the tussle between keeping up their globalization as well as keeping commercial interests on an upward graph.
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