BCCI keen to send N. Srinivasan to ICC to end loss spree
BCCI’s state units are keen on former president N Srinivasan attending ICC meetings as Shashank Manohar's tenure has seen a huge loss in revenue for the BCCI. Srinivasan had proposed the concept of Big Three, where India, England and Australia were getting a major share of revenues.
Ever since Shashank Manohar left the BCCI to take up the independent chairman post in the ICC, he has been on a spree of his own to find a way against the BCCI, with the Indian board incurring a huge amount of loss in the process. The Big Three model has been scrapped, while the revenue has been reduced drastically to ensure BCCI is left helpless at times in the board meetings.
Keeping everything in mind, the newly elected members of BCCI’s state units are interested to send former president N Srinivasan to International Cricket Council meetings. However, worryingly for the BCCI, the revised constitution doesn’t permit any individual who has completed a nine year-term or is more than 70 years of age to hold office. However, the board members want that clause to be relooked at so that the 74-year-old TN administrator can be accommodated.
“All the state associations are of the view that Srinivasan should be sent to ICC. BCCI should request the Supreme Court to consider this. India has lost too much money in the past three years, a lot is at stake. Srinivasan is the best person for this," a source told Indian Express.
It must be noted that, Manohar, who was a former president of the BCCI, has been in favour of a more egalitarian model when the Big Three was proposed and later, under his chairmanship, a new model was framed by the global body to ensure every international board received a share of the massive pie that was ICC’s revenues.
BCCI's president-elect Ganguly when asked about the ICC, said, “That’s one area we will have to take care of, because in the last 3-4 years we have not received the kind of money that we deserve. India generates 75-80 per cent of the global cricket revenue, so that is going to be one of the big points on the agenda. Talks and discussions need to happen and we need to find a solution, as (current situation) is not leading us anywhere,” Ganguly told reporters.
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