Cricket Australia boss says India deserves bigger slice of ICC revenue Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards says it is fair the Indian board should receive a bigger share of world cricket revenue for "hiring out" Team India to the ICC, and describes controversial governance reforms as "critical for the future of the game." CA's board of directors on Friday backed the reforms championed by India, Australia and England. Edwards said the current system for running the game, which is completely dysfunctional, would not solve any of its problems and insisted no country would be worse off under the changes if the next media rights deal met expectations. At least four of the 10 Test-playing nations are as good as broke and almost all depend on India for survival, which allows the Board of Control for Cricket in India to rule with an iron fist. "These reforms are absolutely critical for the future of the game and I don't just mean Test cricket," Edwards said after returning from ICC meetings in Dubai. We have to get to a point where everybody wants to be part of this and see the game improve. My focus has always been the game, not the money. Change is very important. I have worked very hard to make sure we have protected a lot of important things and if people just concentrate on the fact that India get more of the money and Australia gets marginally more than South Africa, and South Africa gets marginally more than Pakistan and New Zealand gets a bit more than Zimbabwe, then so be it. The reality is everybody - 106 nations - gets more money in the new deal. No body is going backwards assuming we get the right number when we go to tender, and guess what, if it ends up the same number we've had for the last eight years, India don't get any more money than anyone else. It's not as if we have deserted the rest of them. We want world cricket to thrive, not go backwards. Central to the reforms is a new revenue distribution model that would see India receive the lion's share of ICC revenue and, to a lesser extent, England and Australia also benefit financially. "I think what we have negotiated is more than fair," Edwards said. They [India] are contributing towards 80 per cent of the money and they're taking about 20 per cent for hiring their team for the ICC. They are hiring their team out and people need to understand that is worthy of compensation. It has also emerged that Cricket Australia played the role of broker in trying to heal the rift between India and South Africa, which had devastating financial consequences for South Africa when India slashed its tour of that country last year. Australia, which is about to embark on a three-Test series against the No.1-ranked Proteas, has opened talks with Cricket South Africa about tours beyond the next five years. There is also scope for an 11th country to play Test cricket, with the winner of the Intercontinental Cup between the top eight Associates possibly playing the lowest-ranked Test country for the right to play Tests.