Cricket governance is at its lowest ebb, and the damage being done across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Italy, France, and the USA is not purely the fault of those causing it. It falls equally on those watching it happen and saying nothing. The French cricket board has lost its license to operate and is still operating. That is not a grey area.

The ICC board sits at the center of this silence. While board members spend their bandwidth debating boundary-line catches and pitch conditions, entire member boards are drifting into dysfunction or outright illegitimacy. Governance is the primary job. Every competition, broadcast deal, and expansion into new markets rests on a foundation of credible administration, and that foundation is cracking.

The ICC board has the tools and the authority to act. The small minority causing damage will not stop on their own, and cricket governance will not fix itself. The question is whether those with seats at the ICC table have the will to stop looking the other way.

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