Quote from: Juggy777 on Today at 02:03:21 AM

Quote from: JSRAW on November 01, 2022, 07:23:22 PM

It would be ignorance if we are saying that BCCI never faces any problems, it's just they don't cry about it in public but raise their voice in the right forum sometimes they win, sometimes they lose (pointing towards a new revenue system, everyone voted against them, rightly so) but they still manage to create new opportunities to make more money, look at how swiftly they extended IPL window in return, that I admire about BCCI despite their shady behavior.

Back to the main subject of equal distribution (more than 90 cricket boards). Hypothetically if it gets approved then I am positive PCB, AFC, BCB, SLC, CSA, NZC, and WICB will be bankrupt within 1-2 years and there would be zero test cricket in these countries. PIG-3 will suffer too but they can sustain themselves.

@JSRAW while people do criticise BCCI a lot including me, but what I do admire about them is they dont make excuses and focus on finding solutions eg remember when covid happened they yet found a way to stage IPL and pay all boards money earned from it. Furthermore those countries would happily go bankrupt rather than listen to BCCI proposals, and if that happens then I dont think their citizens will forgive them hence I feel that theyll back out of this proposal at the last moment as they too know that its a disastrous proposal.

Yup, BCCI does know how to make money, even in bad times and the way things are going then in the next decade they are going to demolish the old system for good. It could blow back on their face as well if something happens in Indian cricket, not outside pushback but within. All IPL franchises started claiming territories and BCCI could face some sort of challenges in the future but still IMO the trajectory is on an uptrend mode.

Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 03:01:00 AM

Quote from: JSRAW on November 01, 2022, 07:23:22 PM

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Back to the main subject of equal distribution (more than 90 cricket boards). Hypothetically if it gets approved then I am positive PCB, AFC, BCB, SLC, CSA, NZC, and WICB will be bankrupt within 1-2 years and there would be zero test cricket in these countries. PIG-3 will suffer too but they can sustain themselves.
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At the most there are 25-30 countries where cricket is played. ICC has a membership of 100 plus, but in 70% to 75% of the cases, these are fake national teams entirely made of foreigners. Only countries such as Kenya and Nepal, where cricket is mostly played by natives should count. I have analyzed some of the "national" teams such as Czech Republic and Norway. These teams are entirely made up of medical students and embassy staff from the subcontinent. If they receive funding of ~10 million USD per year, how is it going to be spent? It can result in a condition even worse than what we have in Zimbabwe right now.

As I've already pointed out in my previous posts, if they become citizens then there is nothing wrong with it (Barring direct appointees from the Gov -not kids-, the staff includes both sets of people Locals/foreigners, locals could be from any origin and it's fine too).

Spending is debatable and unexplored territory for obvious reasons but it shouldn't be much different from the existing setup, which is pouring money into the domestic grassroots infrastructure of cricket.