The battle between cricket's haves and some of its have-nots ended in a tense '" and probably brief '" stalemate on Tuesday after the first day of a board meeting in Dubai as important as any the International Cricket Council (ICC) has had in years.

Cricket Australia (CA), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) were keen on implementing a number of resolutions that would drastically restructure the governance and finance distribution models of the ICC, concentrating control and power in their hands; the boards of Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were in the opposition. Ultimately both sides claimed little victories.

The four smaller boards managed to defer voting and signing on the resolutions, moving one of the board officials to say it was "a big thing that we managed to get the resolution to not go through'. But an ICC news release after the meeting said there had been "unanimous support for a set of principles relating to the future structure, governance and financial models of the ICC'.  

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