What the new ICC finance model means for the BCCI

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[siddheshyeole]

I hope you also get an Indian journalist who puts across BCCI's perspective as well. I saw a very compelling piece by Vijay Tagore in Cricbuzz.
Keep up the good work, Geoff and Adam!

[shirishhirekodi]

Give ICC's 80% revenue and take 38.5%? Hard to grok? What needs to be reverse engineered is how other countries too can grow the game, contribute more to the ICC and have greater say. Make sizeable contributions and hak se maango

[bhargav]

BCCI should not get any money from next cycle. They only have 28 domestic teams, more than 20 stadiums, hundreds of domestic players, staff, groundsmen and only two international teams.

[dhawal]

So easy to say all this stuff and discount decades of work done in India isn't it? Pakistan and Bangladesh have equally massive following, passion and population but it hasn't been translated yet because there is serious level of corruption govt involvement etc Same happens with other countries, they need to deal with their issues first.
BCCI has worked hard for years to tap into the market and they didn't just fall on a bag full of gold. You seem old enough to remember how India was treated abroad. They worked their ass off and icons like Kapil Dev Gavaskar Sachin Ganguly Dravid Laxman Kumble Yuvraj etc helped bring passion towards the game from public.

[rahulsuri]

@thefinalword
Where's the full video of the interview

[nzpers]

Taking any moral high ground on this issue is futile, as much can be said on the other side too. How about broadeing the narrative instead of limiting it to BCCI v rest if ICC and from 2023 to the history of human affairs? Would it not look very different? That those that had power wielded it - be it muscle power or money power or technology power, just to name a few...

Here are a few 'reasonable' arguments currently being discussed:
1) Those who have had the most success on the field should get more money.
Translated, it could mean Australia and England mainly! But use the same argument some ten years ago... will England embrace that argument? Or Australia when Packer was running a parallel World Series?
2) Those who 'need' it must get more money.
Translated it could mean Ireland Afghanistan Zimbabwe etc (not in any order). It also means get it from those who can and give it to those who 'need' it. (Any whiff of political philosophy there?!)
3) Share the money proportionately to what you bring to the table (current BCCI argument. Perhaps Kerry Packer's logic too! Imagine extending it to the level of players! especially women players!!).

Why were the first three ODI World Cups held in England (1975-83) and not rotated among say England, Australia and West Indies?

Who made the laws such that Australia and England had veto powers in the ICC? Were democracy and equality unknown principles then? (You still can see exclusive privilege for a few operational in the UN Security Council voting structure!)

There was a reference to Manchester City being a dominant force in the BPL. Who is the majority shareholder there?

I would like to see (if I live that long) what would be the principles used to support or oppose when Saudi money takes over world cricket in an attempt to sportswash Saudi Arabia's global image just as Qatar did by staging the World Cup in a place and time not conducive to playing football. Btw, what is 'global' - is it defined by number of countries (which changes based on military and political might) or the population that inhabit the planet? Or any other parameter?

My point again, is let us not moralise as if BCCI is the only culprit. Or "greedy". (Just a thought... How many professional cricketers regardless of their nationality have equally distributed their earnings among the schoolboy cricketers of their country/state/neighborhood because those schoolboys need it more?).

If BCCI 'reverse engineered' the calculations to justify what they get out of ICC anointed tournaments, then what about holding an opinion and then finding arguments to buttress it?

ALL of us are all people who live in brittle houses. Throwing stones at others would not be advisable.

Anyone who has power will wield it to his/het/its advantage. That's what history has been telling us. In 2023 it is BCCI. in 3023 it could be Sierra Leone (by whatever name it is called then) staging world finals of crocodile racing!

[zarp]

Let's give pakistan 0 and everybody a little more from their kitty 😂😂