Advocating for a two-tier Test system and also being very strict about who gets the Test status, former Australia cricket legend Ian Chappell lambasted the International Cricket Council (ICC) and called it an event management company instead of being a board with a tooth to run the game. 

“The ICC is widely regarded as an event management company. They should add ‘and not a very good one’,” Chappell wrote in his column for ESPNcricinfo. 

“The ICC doesn’t run cricket, and unless there’s a major change of heart, the financially desirable nations will continue to have a huge say in producing a self-serving schedule,” he added, blaming the Big Three- India, England and Australia for being too hungry for money.

“Despite being the wealthiest cricket nations [the Big Three] claim a large slice of the money divided among cricket bodies, and yet they agitate for an even larger share,” wrote the 81-year-old, who played 76 Tests and 16 ODIs for his country. 

Chappell went on to say that cricket being run by a competent ICC is a pipe dream. “Hence the growing T20 calendar and the current scheduling schemozzle that plagues the game,” he expressed.