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Plans to give India, England and Australia greater power in running the International Cricket Council (ICC) have been blasted as "entirely motivated by money" by the judge asked to review its governance.
Last month the ICC said it had reached "unanimous agreement" on the outline of a plan to give the sport's most financially powerful nations - India, England and Australia - a greater say in running the world game.
Sri Lanka, Pakistan and South Africa have continued to object ahead of a hastily convened ICC board meeting in Singapore on Saturday where a vote to implement the proposals may take place.
Lord Harry Woolf said: "This a really alarming position for the future of cricket.

	It is giving extraordinary powers to a small triumvirate of three people, and everybody else has got no power to say anything or do anything

	Lord Harry Woolf 
"I don't see how if we had this to consider we could see it as anything but a retrograde step," said Woolf, who submitted his report last year after being commissioned in 2011.
"It is giving extraordinary powers to a small triumvirate of three people, and everybody else has got no power to say anything or do anything," the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales said. "It seems to be entirely motivated by money."
Woolf said, if implemented, the plan would see the ICC cease to be a global governing body and be more like a private members' club. "The British and Australian governments might come to regret this power-grab by their cricket boards: if people in Pakistan see India growing ever stronger, they will resent the role of England and Australia."
"What [the ICC] is going to cease to be is an independent body for playing cricket, and it is going to be what they would like to see: a members club - with a very small number of members," said Woolf.
As for the influence of India, cricket's economic powerhouse, Woolf said: "They are the biggest generators of money and that they can say that should be taken into account, but how it should be taken into account is a matter of judgment.
"There is a paragraph which says it is proposed that the ICC executive board forms a new committee of the ICC called the executive committee, which under new terms of reference will act as - and I emphasise this word - the SOLE recommendation committee on all constitutional, personnel, integrity, ethics, developments and nomination matters, as well as all matters regarding distributions from the ICC."
Woolf added: "I have never seen anything of that sort in a body of this nature."


ICC will become more like a private members' club, says judge

Lord Harry Woolf is alarmed at how India, England and Australia want greater power in running the International Cricket Council (ICC). Photo: Reuters

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ICC will become more like a private members' club, says judge

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The judge reviewing its governance says the new power plan is spurred by money