Wilson resigned from the ECB last month

"The ICC has adopted a fundamentally amoral position supported by draconian powers," he said.

Wilson recently resigned as chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board's Corporate Affairs Committee.

He accused the ICC of sending a "leave your conscience at home" message to cricket administrators.

Writing in the June edition of the Wisden Cricketer, Wilson said fans of the game do not live in a "stadium oasis" where the sport itself is all that matters.

"The citizens of a lively democracy such as the UK look on in wonder at a sport being forced to over-rule the views of all three major political parties, public and media opinion, and even the game's own stakeholders, and act in defiance of every shade of opinion in their country."

Wilson described the ICC's position of trying to keep politics out of sport is "understandable and right" in principle, but said it cannot adhered to rigidly whatever the circumstances.

"It is one thing to say 'Let's do our best to work together to maintain our programme, and have a framework for doing it'.

"It is another to say 'And, by the way, that means suspension of all moral judgement and a protocol that works for dictatorships and not Westminster-style democracies' and then to enforce it ruthlessly by threatening to bankrupt an offending cricket governing body," he added.