What are the challenges facing the International Cricket Council?
The obvious one is the challenge we have been struggling with since last year; that of corruption in the game. It, to my mind, is an enormous problem; the biggest cricket has ever had, I suspect. We have been quite despondent as time unfolds; we did not realize that it would be so deep and big as it is. However, the last month or so, the tide is turning a little and we are starting to get back a bit of credibility. I think we are slowly winning the battle. Was it a shortcoming on the part of the ICC in recognizing the problem earlier than it should have? I don’t think it was just the ICC’s fault. It is normal in life always to blame the government. In cricket, that happened to be the ICC. So, we are always fair game. When something goes wrong, just blame the ICC. I don’t think that blame can be just laid on the ICC. I don’t think that anybody — the cricket administrators, players or the paying public — realized that it was happening to the extent it was. Yes, we at the ICC were slow
