Setback for BCCI as it loses revenue, governance votes at ICC meet 

THE BCCI suffered a massive blow as it was comprehensively voted out on governance structure and revenue model at the ICC Board Meeting in Dubai.

The Indian cricket board was thrashed 1-9 when representatives of all other member nations, except India's Amitabh Chaudhary, voted in favour of a change in the governance structure. Their opposition to change of the revenue model was also rejected 8-2 by the ICC board with Chaudhary only finding support from Sri Lanka Cricket's Thilanga Sumathipala.

The BCCI was opposing the ICC on two counts – the revenue model and the proposed two-tier Test structure. The new revenue model is expected to cut BCCI’s share to half from USD 570 mn. As reported by PTI, a senior BCCI official working close to development revealed, 

"Yes, the votings are over. It was 8-2 in favour of revamped revenue model and 9-1 in favour of constitutional changes. The BCCI has voted against both as we had, in principle, maintained that all these changes are completely unacceptable for us. At this point, we can only say that all options are open for us. We would have to go back to our SGM and apprise the members of the situation."

The voting result is a sort of embarrassment for the Committee of Administrators (COA) as it was dealing with a lot of member nations and was extremely confident of pulling it in India's favour.

When asked if India could pull out of the upcoming Champions Trophy in England, the official replied,

"All options are open. They have basically disrespected the Members Participation Agreement that was earlier signed. As of now the joint secretary will go back and an emergent SGM will be called. He will then apprise the General Body about the developments and an appropriate decision will be taken."

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