Cricket Australia set to be influenced by BCCI demands at upcoming meeting with ICC

International Cricket Council (ICC) and Cricket Australia (CA) are trying to reach an agreement over future of ICC tournaments. ICC CEO Manu Sawhney will be visiting Australia in an effort to conduct talks over matter in a couple of weeks' time. ICC has had a tough time in past few months after it proposed an extra tournament to help smaller cricket boards and ir finances. 

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Cricket Australia on same p as BCCI ahead of negotiations

CA chairman Earl Eddings talked to a leading cricket portal about upcoming negotiations with ICC and emphasised that Cricket Australia are aiming to co-operate with ICC and help m through ir problems. Eddings also said that intense discussions will have to be held before a concrete solution comes up since player wellness and workload also need to be mand. CA chairman also ackwledged that unlike Cricket Australia, a lot of or countries depend more on ICC finances than y do on bilateral cricket. He clarified how even Cricket Australia makes losses but smaller cricket boards may have even heavier losses.

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Eddings mentioned how global T20 wave and multiple bilateral series put heavy load on players and ir wellbeing is of paramount importance. He also suggested that every board starts accounting for ir finances in 4-year cycles. se comments came in wake of NZC (New Zealand Cricket) anuncing heavy losses for FY 2019-20. He also insisted that some patience needs to be exercised as next ICC cycle will begin in 2023.

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BCCI, CA and ECB vs ICC

All cricket boards of world are provided with funds for every ICC tournament in a proportionate manner. However, table exceptions, in this case, are  big players like Cricket Australia, England and Wales Cricket Board and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Smaller boards suffer financially as y do t stand to make as much money of bilateral tours as y can only make most of what ICC pays m. To alleviate ir problems, Manu Sawhney had called for a fourth ICC tournament to be added to four-year cycle. 'Big Three' (BCCI, ECB, and CA) are opposed to that tournament. It is expected that BCCI's thoughts will have a massive influence on way CA deals with ICC before Ganguly and co. officially deal with governing body mselves. Jay Shah, BCCI secretary will have a massive role in negotiations ahead for India as he has been appointed recently at board's representative at all ICC meetings, which generally take place in Dubai.

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