BOARD BATTLE BCCI chucks $100 million

Flexes muscle in ICC fight

New Delhi, April 25: The revenue model feud between the ICC and the BCCI continued on Tuesday with the Indian cricket body rejecting the world body’s offer of an additional $100 million in the proposed format.

“Yes, ICC chairman Shashank Manohar gave us an offer of an additional $100 million in the new financial model. In fact, he gave us a deadline to get back to him. From our end, we won’t get back to him as we don’t even consider it an offer,” a senior BCCI source present in Dubai, said on Tuesday.

Asked why the offer was not even being considered, the official blamed it on the trust deficit between Manohar and the top cricket board in India — BCCI.

“The offer came from Manohar. He is the chairman but ICC is a members’ body and the chairman doesn’t decide who gets what share of the pie. It’s the members who decide. We are still working on the formula with all nations. They are receptive. Mr Manohar doesn’t decide BCCI’s share,” the official added.

The BCCI has been at loggerheads with the ICC on the proposed revenue model which considerably cuts down India’s share.

Asked why the offer was not even being considered, a BCCI official blamed it on trust deficit between Manohar and the BCCI. In the existing revenue distribution model, BCCI gets $579 million from the ICC.

In the existing revenue distribution model, BCCI gets $579 million from the ICC.

If Manohar’s proposal is passed by the ICC, then the BCCI’s share comes down drastically to a $290 million amount which even the Committee of Administrators had found unacceptable.

In fact, Vikram Limaye, after attending the last ICC board meeting, had objected to the model terming it as something based on good faith and equity.

Asked what the BCCI’s stand on the issue would be, the official explained how they plan to work it out.

“Let us take the example that BCCI were being paid `500 and others are being paid `100.

Now these member nations have been promised `175 or let’s say `200. What Mr Shashank Manohar is trying to do is to reduce BCCI’s share to `300 in order to increase their share,” he said. — PTI