The Emergent Working Committee of the BCCI in Chennai on Thursday has been summoned to discuss Board’s bid to push for lion’s share from ICC’s revenue earnings at the parent body’s executive board meeting in Dubai on January 28-29.
Another issue that might just come up for discussion is proposing BCCI president N Srinivasan’s name as the first chairman of the International Cricket Council although his name needs to be passed at a governing body meeting.
BCCI president N Srinivasan during the end of last year had met Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards to discuss the issue of revenue sharing model and expressed his intentions about what the Indian cricket board feels on the matter.
When Patel was asked whether India will push for at least 70 per cent on a new profit-sharing model, the secretary replied, “That can’t be said at the moment. Obviously that’s one of the revenue models but there are a few alternative profit-sharing models also which we would be looking at.”
It is already known that BCCI president has promised that all the affiliated units will be getting a bigger share of the booty and the decision to push for greater pie was expected to be unanimous.
As far as Srinivasan’s name being pushed for ICC chairmanship, it can’t technically happen at the working committee meeting but can always come up for discussion.