BCCI is not a part of the new working committee that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has formed.
The committee that has been formed has representatives from Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies and Scotland. The committee will make all the important decisions of the ICC and will determine how ICC functions going ahead.
BCCI is the biggest powerhouse in world cricket at the moment, but they still have no representative in the committee which is highly surprising.
It might be because of the fact that there was no BCCI in place in a proper way when the working committee of ICC was formed. The Committee of Administrators (CoA), which was put in place by the Supreme Court of India on an interim basis, was in charge of the BCCI.
But, it is also understood that ICC might have overlooked BCCI deliberately as they don’t want to adopt the revenue sharing model that BCCI had proposed when N Srinivasan was BCCI’s representative in the ICC.
Srinivasan had asked for a significant increment in BCCI’s revenue share from the ICC which had not gone down well with the other cricket boards.
ICC has a feeling that if BCCI gets into the working committee, they will ask for the Srinivasan’s model to be adopted and ICC is clearly not in favour of that.
“The ICC’s revenues have grown significantly and the BCCI gets a fair share. The other established member boards are struggling with finances and the associates need more funding.” An ICC source was quoted saying by TOI.
The current ICC chairman Shashank Manohar is also from India and he has been the BCCI president in the past, but he has always opposed Srinivasan’s model publicly.
Manohar has always insisted that if India’s revenue share is increased further, it will harm the associates as they will get less money.
