The BCCI had threatened to form a parallel world cricket body before the England and Australian boards agreed to the controversial restructuring of the ICC and decided to give a lion's share of revenue to the Indian board, said its secretary Sanjay Patel yesterday
Sanjay Patel
Hyderabad: The BCCI had threatened to form a parallel world cricket body before the England and Australian boards agreed to the controversial restructuring of the ICC and decided to give a lion's share of revenue to the Indian board, said its secretary Sanjay Patel yesterday.
Sanjay Patel
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"We got criticised by many in the media and lot of them did not agree but we told them that if India is not getting its proper due and importance, then India might be forced to form a second ICC of its own," Patel said here.
"England and Australia agreed and after that it was decided and from June 27 onwards the new structure will come into place and I would like to state that all 10 full members have signed the resolution," said the BCCI secretary who was the chief guest at the Sports Journalists Federation of India's 37th Annual Convention that concluded here.
There was also no stopping BCCI president-in-exile N Srinivasan from taking over as the first chairman of the ICC later this month in Melbourne as the Supreme Court has not prevented him from doing so, explained Patel.
"By the month end, India will take a leading role in the ICC. Mr Srinivasan is going. There is no Supreme Court bar on him.
"Both of us are going to Melbourne. In the last four months we have settled (the issue) with all the full members of the ICC and convinced them about the new structure and the new financial model of the ICC which would be followed in the coming years," said Patel while addressing the national sports scribes.
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