No one country should dominate ICC: Howard

Melbourne, Jul 4 (PTI) John Howard refuses to blame India
for scuttling his bid for the International Cricket Council
vice-President's job but the former Australian Prime Minister
feels international cricket's financial powerhouse should not
be allowed to dominate affairs like it does right now.
"We have to be careful of making India some kind of
target of disdain in world cricket," Howard said when asked
whether he considers India the primary reason for losing out
on the crucial Afro-Asian support for his bid.
"(But) I think it is very important we understand there's
got to be a fair sharing of responsibilities and no one part
of the world, no one country, should dominate.
"People in the past criticised the fact it was dominated
by England and Australia and now we don't want to replace one
perceived domination with another," he told 'Channel Nine'.
"That in a way is why the ICC put in place this rotation
system and that's one of the issues CA have got to take into
account when it responds to what has happened."
Howard said he still wants the job but it is upto Cricket
Australia and New Zealand Cricket to consider whether he
should be re-nominated.
"I'd like the job but at this stage it's hit a roadblock,
and what happens from now on is really CA's call, it's not
about me, it's about the future of the game," Howard said.
"I went into this because I love cricket very much and I
had the time to devote to it and the energy and the
commitment, but what happens from now on CA and New Zealand
Cricket have been asked to re-nominate and they obviously
separately and together will meet and talk about the
situation," he added.
Howard once again expressed his disappointment at being
rejected for the job and hoped CA would work out a
conciliatory formula.
"They've got to pay regard to what's happened, given that
we had apparently put in place a procedure for choosing by
rotation the president and vice president of the ICC, and that
appears to have been pushed to one side in the last week.
"But equally they've got to look at the future of the
game," he said.
Howard said India's financial might should not be viewed
negatively.
"There is one part of the world where a sport at the
present time remains transcendent over soccer and that is the
Indian sub-continent," he said.
"The fanaticism for cricket among the 1.5 billion people
in the entire region... is unbelievable and we've got to see
that in a positive light," he added. PTI PM
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