London, Apr 17: The global cricketers` union has threatened `the Indian-dominated` International Cricket Council (ICC) to drastically reform its way of functioning or face a no-confidence motion and lose top stars to a players-run competition.

The Federation of International Cricketers` Association (FICA), showing its resentment over the way the ICC has handled some key issues like the Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symonds racial allegations controversy in Australia recently, will decide at its meeting at Austin, Texas, starting May 26 whether to break away from the 100-year-old body.

FICA`s international legal adviser Ian Smith told the Guardian newspaper that the two Indian Twenty20 leagues have helped players re-assess their worth and this has encouraged them to think about playing a breakaway tournament of top cricketers.

`The two days (of the conference) will be dominated by Indian cricket, what to do about the IPL (Indian Premier League), Twenty20 and Stanford (Challenge in West Indies),` he said.

`People are increasingly seriously asking why aren`t we walking away. The competence of the administrators is being called into question at a policy level. We believe that because the players are better organised and that talent has been radically revalued by the Indian leagues it`s time to look at whether the players can do a better job than the current policy makers.`

Smith hoped the resolution at the meeting would demand for more accountability from what he termed as the `Indian-dominated governing board` of the ICC.

`There is no loyalty at all [from the players] towards the ICC at the top level. We know that if someone came along and said let`s do a 10-year, pound 1billion deal and create a world circus of cricket, we could take the top 200 players in the world into that circus if there is a guaranteed good income, good competition and good standard of living. All it would take is one broadcast deal,` he said.

`So there`s no trust between the top level of cricket administrators and the guys who play it. It`s not the fault of the executive of the ICC - people like Malcolm Speed [ICC CEO] are good guys who do their best for the game. It`s that the decisions of the ICC are governed by the board and the structure of the ICC is wrong for world cricket. They`ve cocked up on every single policy issue.`

Smith further said: `You can`t have 10 people on the ICC board voting on every single issue out of self-interest. We want an independent executive answerable to its shareholders once a year at an AGM.`

The issues that have annoyed FICA are:

* The shambles of the World Cup in the West Indies, which was played to half-empty stadiums.

* The Darrell Hair affair, when his handling of the forfeited England-Pakistan Test match led to his dismissal as an elite umpire before being reinstated.

* The mismanagement of Harbhajan Singh`s alleged racist slurs against Australia`s Andrew Symonds

* The decision not to make public the KPMG audit of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union`s finances, which the ICC admitted exposed `serious financial irregularities`.