There is no doubt India is the biggest market in cricket just because of this now they are taking good advantages as well so here no talking more about this is not positive because now it's time for having some stand for associate countries which are suffering badly specially countries which are having mostly native players they need more intention from ICC about their structure and other things which are important for them to stay in main stream and developed quality but sadly right now ICC or any big country are not interested in this matter which is surely a problem for them.

Countries like Zimbabwe and Kenya are improving something but still not able to do things which are more important due to domestic issues and these things are beyond from ICC here they have to check for themselves and bring better and fair system which could be acceptable for all.

Whatever happened in the last match of Asia cup but i would like to say both teams did their best and we got a winner, but other things ahead the next Match which is going to happen between the AFG and BAN is going to be excited as both teams are strong enough to tackle each other thats going to be interesting.

There was some provision on tenders that bidders are allowed to bid lower than the base price. This KSR guy is pretty reliable on money numbers, might not be accurate but 99% time he comes very close.

The recent bid was for just 4 years, in comparison to the previous deal which was 8 years (around $2 Billion or something) so it's possible that SONY bid was lower.

This is another thread from him. https://twitter.com/KShriniwasRao/status/1564226662656626689

Anyway, I guess the ICC got more than what they were expecting. Personally I was expecting somewhere in the range of $2.0 to $2.5 billion, given that the reserve price of $1.44 sounded a bit optimistic. Looks as if Disney-Star desperately wanted to win the media rights, since Ten Sports has grabbed the rights to bilateral series with most of the national boards. This bid by Disney-Star just proves how desperate they are. I am interested to know how much the ICC may get from the other regions. US/UK is also a lucrative market and is going in the next round.

I think the problem with the Olympics is that in reality, they are not interested in anything other than the actual rules. In addition, the big four cannot impose their authority over the Olympics as well. So we can say that the big four teams are basically saying, and basically convincing the ICC, that introducing cricket to the Olympics is not going to be a smart idea. In addition, the ICC is also on board with that idea.

In spite of this, you can see that if you analyze this from the point of view of the ICC, we will see that they receive the most amount of money from the top four teams. Thus, it makes perfect sense for them to listen to what the top four cricket boards have to say about the matter.

We have discussed this over and over again, Cricket was played in 1900 Olympics, if you were not aware of it . It was a two day game and only two teams participated, England and France and obviously England won the Gold. Olympics is held for 16 days and only now Cricket match duration is cut down to T20 FYI to have a realistic possibility to be included in Olympics.

Reality check, all the countries national board including ICC is pitching billions of dollars worth of media rights and they will be obligated to follow them with the content and hence it is not about challenging any authority but to follow the media obligations without breaking the contract. Woman's cricket is not getting that much media rights or obligations and hence i wont be surprised if they include woman's cricket in the Olympics before they include Men's.

The biggest part of this all talk is they are afraid of get impacted in revenue which they don't want specially BCCI because they are big gainer and with this all they are not feeling good it's all understandable so if they are not happy then surely others can go by their own way which is also not bad at all.

BCCI not participated in these events because if they are not happy then surely they can leave this all for others which is also not bad and if they want to do then surely they can go with option like Under-23 teams or all teams can send their A team which is also not bad at all because in soccer they are mostly sending their Under-23 teams which are also good for the all countries and BCCI is not happy with qualifier it's really disgusting they have to follow all rules which are applicable and others are going through with them.

@JSRAW all OTT platform are facing serious competition hence I can understand why they over paid, and further this industry is very lucrative and thus what may look expensive for us may actually be a bargain for them considering that they’ll make a lot more as advertisers are paying premium amounts to advertise on OTT platform’s.


@Sithara007 I believe another fear is that Olympic’s could over shadow IPL in the long run, and BCCI will not allow any other tournament to steal IPL’s limelight hence it’s understandable why BCCI is so opposed to men’s team’s participation in the Olympic’s.

They desperately wanted to tap in to the American market and that is the reason why they made United States co-hosts for 2024 world cup (thereby giving automatic qualification). I don't understand this logic. In that case when India hosts the next T20 World Cup, the BCCI can give 1-2 matches each to Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan and Myanmar, there by enabling these countries to qualify automatically.

BTW, I made some rough calculations regarding the ICC fund allocation for next cycle.

Disney-Star paid the ICC $2.1 billion for the last 8-year cycle (2015-23). And this was for world-wide rights. The amount allotted for distribution to member associations stood at $1.7 billion (with the remaining amount eaten up by administrative costs and other expenses).

This time, they are paying $3.04 billion just for India. If we give a conservative estimate of 80% of the revenues coming from India, ICC should be able to get around $3.75 billion for the next 4 years from media rights sale alone. That is around 350% higher (per year) than what was last time.

So ideally the fund allocation from the ICC should go up by 350% for all the countries from 2024 onwards. But the catch is that the BCCI can claim that 80% of the revenues come from India and therefore they should get a similar share.