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- Updated: June 1, 2016
The new BCCI president Anurag Thakur has said in an interview with ESPNcricinfo that a rollback of the constitutional revamp that gave India, England and Australia greater administrative and financial power at the ICC is not a certainty, despite his predecessor Shashank Manohar’s criticism of the “bullying” of the ICC by the “Big Three”. Manohar, who was recently elected as the first independent chairman of the ICC, heads a five-member steering group that is reviewing the constitutional reforms of 2014, with an aim of submitting recommendations at the ICC’s annual conference later this month.
Manohar was particularly displeased with the revenue-sharing formula, saying it would make “the poor poorer and the rich richer”. “India generates money because the other countries come and play in India,” he had pointed out. “If you do not have a fierce competition, the broadcasters are not going to pay you and the sponsors are not going to sponsor your events.”
Thakur, however, said the present revenue-sharing arrangement was not dismantled yet, but was still in the negotiations stage. “The [BCCI] authorised the president and …
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