This follows International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision during their Annual Conference on Thursday that it will not interfere in modalities related to bilateral agreement involving two nations.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will no longer be compelled to play a bilateral series with Pakistan.
This follows International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision during their Annual Conference on Thursday that it will not interfere in modalities related to bilateral agreement involving two nations.
In simple terms, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is now in no position to take BCCI to the court of law for not honouring the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed during N Srinivasan’s tenure in 2014.
According to the MoU, the two neighbouring countries were to play six bilateral series, four of them in Pakistan.
However, all these series needed clearance from respective governments. The PCB had also demanded a compensation of around $60 million in this regard.
A BCCI official said, “Whether to play Pakistan or not is a matter dealt by governments of both the countries. No one can blackmail us now if there is an issue on the border.”
India have always maintained that two countries can play at any ICC event but not in a bilateral series as long as Pakistan continues to support cross-border terrorism.
Another news to cheer BCCI up is that the board now will also be a part of the ICC’s Strategic Working Group, which controls the financial issues.
End of ‘Big Three’ model
In the matters related to money, BCCI had to finally bow down to ICC chairman Shashank Manohar’s original offer of settling for little over $100 million across an eight-year cycle.
The revenue sharing model has been a bone of contention for a particular section of BCCI (read N Srinivasan’s group) after ICC settled for a mere $293 million against its original demand of $570 million during the last meeting in Dubai.
Despite Manohar’s offer of giving $100 million more, BCCI struck to its guns in April till it was outvoted 1-13.
BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary on Thursday finally sealed the deal at a little over $100 million. As per the final agreement approved by the ICC Board, the BCCI will now receive $405 million, $112 million more over next eight years than what was passed last time.
BCCI still will be the largest earner from ICC kitty as England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is next with $139 million. Australia, South Africa, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Bangladesh will all receive $128 million each. Whereas, Zimbabwe retain $94 million purse.
In nutshell, Srinivasan’s plan of ushering a new “Big Three Model” has now been buried in the files of the ICC.
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