Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 12:10:13 PM

Quote from: JSRAW on Today at 11:58:18 AM

There is a big possibility of a broadcaster dictating the terms but considering the kind of hitjob Dailymail is doing against Indian cricket in general, it sounds like another hitjob against BCCI for no reason. They don't control Broadcaster, infact it's the other way around.

It's not rocket science who is a big gainer if it's 10 team tournament. Indian cricket fills the pocket of the ICC so they are big losers if something goes wrong, similar to 2007. Yes BCCI will also lose some but so are the other boards.

Given the risk involved, I don't think that the BCCI has anything to do with this. Their share from the ICC media rights for 2024-27 (38.5% of $3 billion, i.e around $1 billion) is only a fraction of the IPL media rights for the same period. Given this, I don't think that the BCCI will try to intervene in the tournament format. The risk involved is simply not worth it. I am 100% sure that Disney-Star is behind the new proposal. They have a feeling that they paid far more for the 2024-27 cycle than they should have and now they are trying to find some excuse to cancel the deal.

Finally, it took you more than 1 year but now you are accepting as well Grin

. That's a moment i must tell you "Told ya" Tongue

During their bid, I mentioned here many times that they overpaid due to FOMO and missing the IPL bid and in doing so they messed up everything. Another example of a Broadcaster showcasing its power is, just look at the upcoming T-20 series against Australia.

Quote from: JSRAW on September 07, 2022, 09:41:05 AM

As mentioned in my previous post that Hotstar does have a monopoly in OTT market, close to 60 Million paid subscribers so no argument there whatsoever.

Let me put it this way, why i think they overpaid (not saying that they can't make money, just focusing on overpaid issue)

- Do you think that casual or even hardcore cricket fans watch every match in the ICC tournament? 99.99% would say no because fans love to watch their respective team (sometimes they even miss the action) and marquee, knockout encounters like Semifinals/ Finals.

-There are total of 179 matches in 4 ICC tournaments and India is playing 26 matches in 4 ICC tournaments then we have additional 8 semifinals and 4 finals (knockouts).

- From the broadcaster's point of view if they are targeting the Indian market only, then they have only 26 (Ind) + 8(Semis) + 4(finals) = 38 Important matches out of 179 in the ICC tournaments.

- If we look at important matches only (38) then according to $3.02 Billion bid it every match is worth close to $80 Million.

- And if we are looking at every ICC match which is 179 then every game is worth approx $16.8 Million. Point to note that 1 IPL match worth is $13-ish million, that's a recent benchmark.

Remember 179 - 38 = 141 non India/ non knockouts.

Now tell me which broadcaster will pay close to $17 million bucks for Aus vs SL, Pak vs SL, SA vs BAN or even Eng vs Aus for Indian or any market?