ICC’s Current Distribution Model Will See The Rich Getting Richer And The Poor Getting Poorer: MCC

Jul 5, 2017 at 1:00 PM

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ICC’s Current Distribution Model Will See The Rich Getting Richer And The Poor Getting Poorer: MCC

The MCC World Cricket Committee, an independent committee that frames laws and policies for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to consider, has criticised the governing body’s new revenue-distribution model.

The ICC, last month, had announced that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will get $405 million which is $266 million more than second-placed England, which will take home $139 million. Australia, Pakistan, West Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be getting $128 million each while Zimbabwe will get $94 million.

Originally, the ICC had agreed to give $293 million but after hectic negotiations, its chairman Shashank Manohar agreed to increase it by $100 million. And finally, it was decided that $112 million more will be given to BCCI from the previously agreed amount.

MCC believes the new revenue distribution will make the rich boards richer and poor boards poorer and wants the well-off boards to share their riches for the betterment of the game.

“The committee believes that the current distribution model will, if unchanged, see the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. People now talk about the need for a window for international and Test cricket, rather than a window for domestic T20 leagues. What the committee suggests may prove to be too idealistic; we are asking the richer countries to give up some funding in the long-term interest of cricket as a whole,” reads a statement from the MCC.

The committee, comprising some of the biggest names in the game across the globe and headed by former England captain Mike Brearley, also expressed its apprehensions over the rise of T20 leagues. The committee, which met in London this week, feels that players ‘especially from countries lacking the funds’ will choose domestic tournaments over the national team.

“The balance between bat and ball has long been a subject on the committee’s agenda, but the balance between the better off and other leading cricketing nations is arguably a bigger challenge. The committee is worried that with the spread of privately owned T20 leagues, and the rapid increase in remuneration (recent and anticipated), more players, especially from countries lacking the funds to pay their top players well, will choose these domestic tournaments ahead of making themselves available for their countries,” the statement stated.

 

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