MP Damian Collins joined campaigners in a silent protest against the global governance of cricket ahead of the final Ashes Test at the Kia Oval.
Journalists Jarrod Kimber and Sam Collins, whose recent film Death of a Gentleman critiques the work of the International Cricket Council, led a three-minute silence outside the ground on Thursday morning.
Collins, a member of the House of Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, joined the protest - which included a wreath "mourning the death of cricket as a global sport", and a lone trumpeter playing The Last Post.
A three-minute silence followed outside the Hobbs Gates, one each for the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia.
Collins said: "Thanks to the three big nations that run world cricket - England, Australia and India - who also control 52% of the game's revenues, Test cricket is being sacrificed in favour of the short forms of the game. The other 102 countries who play the game have access to only 48% of the revenues.
"And, at a time when every other sport wants to expand, the ICC is actually shrinking the Cricket World Cup and doesn't want to participate in the Olympics.
"What's more, while FIFA shows how all sport needs to be wary of administrative corruption, cricket is being run without transparency, accountability or independence by individuals who have shown us time and time again why we cannot trust them to represent the sport's best interests."
Source: PA
