BCCI Apex Council Meeting: Media Rights, Women’s Team Head Coach, World Cup Tax Agenda to discuss in tomorrow’s event

Major things will be discussed in the upcoming BCCI Apex Council meeting on Sunday where variety of topics including the likes of national team media rights, Women’s Team Head Coach and World Cup Tax Agenda will be up for discussion on Sunday.

Based on reports from different media outlets, for media rights Viacom 18 along with Disney+Hotstar along with Sony Sports Network will be up for contention.

The current media rights with Star Sports will be expired in a months time and new broadcaster will be soon rope in by BCCI for the upcoming series against Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

BCCI will be expected to sell the TV and digital media rights separately as in the previous agreement has paid Rs 6132 crore which will expire on March 31st 2023.

Let’s dwell into further details of the discussion in the below format:

  • The existing media rights with Star has already expired with the recently concluded series between India and Australia ODI series.
  • Disney-Star held the media rights for the last time with whopping amount of INR 6132 crore in 2018.
  • BCCI this time would be looking for a 4 year media deal instead of usual 5 years
  • The Indian Cricket Board is confident about earning INR 10,000 crore.
  • They will also rope in temporary broadcaster for the limited matches series between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
  • The Indian Cricket team will be looking to appoint a new full time coach in the upcoming series they will be roping Hrishikesh Kanitkar to helm the responsibility as assistant coach.

  • The discussion will be around tax exemption debate as the cricket board need to take permission from Government so that tax can be levied as if this doesn’t happen on time then BCCI, will have to pay humungous amount of INR 955 crore which is a mandatory amount that they need to pay to ICC in that situation.
  • Let’s see how things unfold from here we will let you know about each and every details also stay tuned for all cricket updates.