The Board of Control for Cricket in India and the International Cricket council continue to battle over finances. The Indian cricketing body has threatened to withdraw from the Champions Trophy in England in 2017 the ICC's financial committee excluded it from a meeting.
BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke was quoted by The Indian Express as saying that India may chart its own path if the country continues to be ignored. “These are the committees where all the important decisions are taken – finance, commerce and chief executives committee; India not having a representative [For the financial committee] is a humiliation for us. We will tell the ICC, ‘either you amend this or we will decide what to do to protect India’s cricket interests globally’. It could be anything. We may even not play the Champions Trophy. Better sense may prevail, and we may not reach that stage at all. But there are so many options.”
The report also suggested that the Indian body is thinking on "parallel lines". The ICC was also accused of using strong-arm tactics. Back in 2014, under N Srinivasan, BCCI wanted to implement a "Big Three model", where the game's three premier revenue generators, England, Australia and India, share 70 percent of the money made. The report named an unidentified BCCI official, who said, “The problem with the ICC now is that it is acting like a dictator. Apart from the Big Three model that the ICC now wants to change, it is slowly trying to keep the BCCI at bay.”
Just days ago, the BCCI had cried foul against the ICC on finding out that for the Champions Trophy 2017, the England and Wales Cricket Board has received a budget three times India's during the World T20 2016 .
