initiative

[user_gary]

In 2006, the International Cricket Council (ICC) directed all its affiliated associations to take women's cricket under their wings. Perhaps, if not for the ICC's initiative, women's cricket in India may have continued to languish in wilderness

I understood the highlighted sentence as :

If the ICC's haven't taken such/the initiative, women's cricket in India may have continued to languish in wilderness.

Please you help me on this.

[RonBee]

If the ICC hadn't taken the initiative, women's cricket in India may have continued to languish in the wilderness.

~R