Will you be OK with Big-3 model in India: Shashank Manohar on financial restructuring of ICC

New Delhi: Responding to the objection raised by Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) on the recommendations to rollback the International Cricket Council's revenue-sharing model, Shashank Manohar has reportedly asked state associations if they are ready to follow the Big-3 model in India.

At the International Cricket Council (ICC) board meeting in Dubai last month, Manohar had suggested that he would speak to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) about the possibility of giving up about 6% of India's 22% share of ICC revenues back to the world body.

Manohar, who is the chairman of ICC and also the president of BCCI, had made these statements in a personal capacity. He was not happy with the "bullying" of the ICC by the cricket board of India, England and Australia.

But, TNCA secretary Kasi Viswanathan wrote a letter asking Manohar whether he had told the ICC board that he was willing to dilute the BCCI stake on world body and revise the contribution costs the Indian boar was supposed to gain from the formula worked out by the Big Three, which was approved in 2014 during N Srinivasan's reign.

A report in the Indian Express on Saturday claimed that the issues were raised by Haryana Cricket Association (HCA), Anirudh Chaudhry during yesterday's AGM.

In response, Manohar reportedly asked the two associations if they were in favour adopting of such a model in India.

“Why not start it in India? If you want to implement this then it will ensure that teams like Mumbai and Karnataka will get more money while the smaller associations who do not produce the same kind of performances will get a smaller amount. Will you all be ok with that?” Manohar asked.

It's also reported that Chaudhry and TNCA failed to impress others with even the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president Sharad Pawar agreeing with Manohar.

“All the cricket boards in the world are here to serve cricket. Money is fine. But we should be magnanimous towards the smaller countries,” the report quoted Pawar as saying.