No threat to India’s hosting rights for ICC World Cup 2023, assures David Richardson
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ICC CEO, David Richardson, has stated that even though getting tax exemptions for the body is necessary, he added that there is no threat of hosting right for the 2023 World Cup being taken away from India. The issue is about pending tax exemption of the 2016 ICC World T20 by the Indian Government.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) David Richardson has stated that there is no threat to India’s hosting rights for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 and 2021 Champions Trophy. But also said that the tax exemptions are important for the cricketing body as it helps it in supporting the cricketing countries which don’t generate much income.
“Getting tax exemptions is very important for world cricket because every cent that is made by the ICC revenue wise is put back into the game. This helps countries like the West Indies who don’t generate as much revenue,” Richardson was quoted as saying by PTI.
“But having said that there are no plans of taking away the hosting (from India) and I’m sure we will get it (exemption) in the end, we’ve still got a lot of time,” he added.
There is a tussle going on involving three stakeholders viz. ICC, the Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) and the Indian Government, wherein the ICC asked the BCCI to get tax exemptions from the Government for the 2016 ICC World T20 event held in India. The supreme cricketing body, at one stage, had even threatened to rescind the hosting rights to the aforementioned events if exemptions were not provided.
On a different note, speaking on the the recently announced 2020 T20 World Cup schedule and fixtures, Richardson stated that since both India and Pakistan are the top two teams in the ranking it was not possible to include both of them in the same group. India and Pakistan don’t meet each other in the league stages of the event as they are placed in different groups.
“We have arranged the groups in a way that has credibility and is based on the ranking system. The teams are placed according to their ranks. In this case, Pakistan were number one in the rankings in their group and India number two.
“…we found no credible way of putting them in the same group. Hopefully from a world perspective they will meet each other in the semifinals or final,” Richardson said. ”
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