Former England skipper and renowned TV commentator Tony Greig has accused Board of Control for Cricket in India for sacrificing the spirit of the game by focusing on the financial gain by promoting T20 cricket. Greig while Delivering MCC's Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at the Lord's also criticized BCCI for opposing the universal usage of the Decision Review System, according to a report in  ESPNcricinfo.

Greig said that the Test matches are sidelined because Indian board is try to make money by monopolizing on success of Twenty20 cricket from the leagues like Indian Premier League and Champions League.

He said that for BCCI, IPL and CLT20 are much more important than the international calendar. He also criticized BCCI for browbeating smaller countries into forcing them to vote in their favour in ICC meetings. He said that BCCI controls much of the game because they control enough votes to block proposals in ICC meetings.

“We can huff and puff as much as we like and have all sorts of external reports, but this situation can only be resolved by India accepting that the spirit of cricket is more important than generating billions of dollars; it's more important than turning out multi-millionaire players,” as Greig was quoted by ESPNcricinfo.

Greig on India’s policy of saying no to DRS was quoted, “India has two reasons for opposing it: One, because its superstars had such an embarrassing experience with it in the early days. Two, the BCCI argues that the DRS is too inexact. Ironically, the spirit of cricket is batting on both sides in this one.

The cavalier approach says DRS is not in the spirit of cricket, but on the other hand, the Indian superstars should act in the spirit of cricket and accept the majority viewpoint."