Its just not cricket

ICC have brought in bans on alcohol being brought into grounds, Walkers crisps, Coke (as in cola) and musical instruments. Why?
ICC seems to be changing its own remit. From an organisation to run the game, under a fairly standard set of rules, internationally to a micro managing monolith. Of course a tournament needs organizing so who better than the ICC to make decisions "Promoting and protecting the game, and its unique spirit."
"Promoting and protecting the game, and its unique spirit" here means generate loads of money for itself. Spend it all on bringing associate members to sufficient strength on the field that they can just get away with making them full members with voting rights. Do one sided matches promote the game? No. Does it protect the game? No. Must be part of its unique spirit then!
Its the 10 votes from full members on the ICC that actually runs the game. Or more preciously its who controls the majority of the votes, controls world cricket.
So who can be trying to gerry-mander the council then?
Well, lets take a look at the last two entrants Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. Who benefits from Zimbabwe's inclusion. England tried to block there inclusion so I doubt its them. I understand India were big supporters of them. As for Bangladesh, aren't they in Asia somewhere? (Which countries are least impacted by the alcohol ban?)  Such a plan could only be carried out by someone so determined they would kill to get what they want.
So why has the ICC imposed these silly little rules and regulations? Because the ICC is to focused on "Promoting and protecting the game, and its unique spirit" instead of attracting people to cricket grounds.