Typical indian response which only highlights that you've never travelled the world or atleast haven't travelled to Australia.
It has nothing to do with hypocrisy. Indians are the reason cricket has more then 1B viewers and is ranked no 2 behind football. That metric is skewed since without india, the no of people watching a sport where only a few countries play and most of those countries don't even have fans that watch it much is extremely less.
India and Pakistan and Bangladesh and other nations treat cricket as their pride and bcci essentially runs icc hence it's their job to keep cricket alive.
If cricket dies, then India suffers revenue loss + it'll have to deal with the damages of finding a new sport that they are good at for their nation.
But Australia it won't affect them too much besides maybe a bit of anger that ashes is over.
Australian footballAFL7,517,67736,317
Rugby leagueNRL3,176,56115,804
SoccerA-League1,405,46910,411
Cricket1,212,69620,554
CricketBBL 852,54914,450
BasketballNBL688,712
^^ This is the ranking of how many people watch cricket in Australia
1.2 million fans in a country worth 26M total population compared to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh where it's
India: 600 to 800M viewers for cricket depending on website metrics, In comparison kabbadi, Football and badminton combined viewership in india dont even have half the no of people in India.
the metrics for Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are similar where you have nearly 60 to 90% of the population watching cricket with the other % watching other spots and let's be real, No one seriously follows them.
Hence Australia just needs to focus on money. They do not need to focus on anything that doesn't make them money in a sport that only 1M out of 26M people watch in their country.
Ashes is for historical value, BGT offers monetary value, Odi world cups, IPL offer money, BBL offers money.
What does aus vs bangladesh offer? India has to support these nations cause if India loses cricket then what do they have? Literally nothing, no sport for their nation. No one gives a damn about badminton, Football etc in india. Just a little bit about kabadi that's all.
Australia on the other hand doesn't lose much if they lose cricket. They don't need to support Bangladesh