Russians in protest over ICC funding

By Richard Edwards
RUSSIA has endured a spiky relationship with the rest of the world in recent years, so it should come as no surprise that cricket’s governing body in the country is currently at loggerheads with the establishment.
“I’ve told the ICC I don’t want their money this year,” Ashwani Chopra, the chairman of Cricket Russia, tells The Cricket Paper. “They want to give me $12,000 – that’s it. That might be okay in a country like Hungary but in a country the size of Russia? What’s that money going to do? Nothing. Abs...

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