A lot of focus has been on the BCCI and their demands for more funds. The Indian board has softened their stance, after the Srinivasan-Pawar mafia was kicked out. Now they are in favor of Olympics inclusion and more sympathetic towards the associate nations. But at the same time, no one really talks about the discrepancy within some of the lower ranking test nations. There is no justification for Zimbabwe receiving $12 million per year from the ICC, while teams such as Nepal receive only around 2% of that amount.
Test status should not be permanent. There should be a promotion-relegation system, where lower ranking teams such as Zimbabwe should play against top ranking associate nations such as Scotland to retain their test status.
Afghanistan players were raised and trained in Pakistan and PCB is not a big board like big 3. Why BCCI is not helping Nepal so that level of cricket there is raised and they start playing international cricket. Nepal is very much dependent on India. Anyways dont expect anything good from ICC for associate countries.