ICC has no relevance without BCCI, accentuates Anurag Thakur
Former BCCI president Anurag Thakur has emphasized that the International Cricket Council (ICC) are heavily dependent on the Board of Cricket Control in India and have “no relevance” without the Indian board. Recently, the ICC kept Indian cricket out of their newly appointed working group.
One of the first few agendas mentioned by newly appointed president Sourav Ganguly, according to him, is getting the correct amount of dues from the global cricket board and former president Anurag Thakur believes that Ganguly can actually make it happen.
The richest board in cricket, the BCCI, used to give the ICC seventy-five per cent of grants to run its affairs. The ICC, in return, created rifts with the BCCI, and Thakur, a Union minister of state for finance and corporate affairs, has now lashed out at the same.Â
"The ICC has no relevance without the BCCI as it used to give it seventy-five percent of grants to run its affairs," Thakur was quoted as saying by the TOI.
Anurag Thakur, also the brother of BCCI’s new treasurer Arun Dhamal, is a former chairman of the BCCI and even though he is not directly connected to the board, Thakur can still give inputs towards the betterment of the sport and board operations.