PCB unhappy with new ICC revenue model
PCB president Najam Sethi
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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is unhappy with the proposed new revenue distribution model for international cricket although it accepts that India, the game's financial engine, should get the biggest share, chairman Najam Sethi told Reuters.
At its upcoming board meeting in June, the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport's international governing body, will vote on a new revenue-sharing scheme for the 2024–27 cycle.
India would take home 38.5%, while England and Australia would take home 6.89% and 6.25%, respectively, according to numbers leaked to Cricinfo. Pakistan will take home 5.75% of the ICC's anticipated profits, mostly from the sale of media rights.
The 12 full members of the ICC would collectively get 88.81%, while the rest would be distributed among its 96 associate members.
"We are insisting that the ICC should tell us how these figures were arrived at," Sethi told Reuters from London.
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“We are not happy with the situation as it stands. Come June, when the board is expected to approve the financial model, unless these details are provided to us, we are not going to approve it" he added.
India generates an estimated 80% of ICC revenue and Disney Star shelled out $3 billion last year to acquire the 2024-27 media rights for the Indian market.
Sethi claimed that the PCB had already questioned the ICC about how its finance and commercial affairs committee, led by Jay Shah, secretary of the Indian cricket board.
All nations will receive extra money, but Sethi claimed that at least two other Test playing nations were unhappy with the model and had asked for further information.
The International Cricket Council (ICC), which took into account aspects such a nation's men's and women's teams' success and contribution to the ICC's commercial earnings, was not immediately available for comment.
The proposed revenue split has become a major talking point in world cricket, which is already facing a rapidly altering landscape because of the Indian-driven rise of franchise-based leagues.
Former England captain Mike Atherton, writing in The Times newspaper on Monday, criticised the "flawed" model, which he feared would only deepen the game's existing inequality.
