Previously, FICA's main role was to give warning against the problems of player burn-out, but since the players have put any notions of burn-out to one side in the dash for Indian cash, FICA was suddenly looking a little useless. Security, this all-embracing notion that nothing can happen in life while there is even the slightest degree of risk, has filled the yawning gap nicely.

Michael Atherton on the change in the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations' priorities