And with their Asia Cup story, India and Pakistan make everyone else uneasy.
Cricket’s Intense Rivalry: The Impact of India and Pakistan on the Asia Cup
If there are still those who believe England is where cricket originated, then India is the Las Vegas palace of cricket. Since years ago, the glamour has been difficult to ignore. They are high rolling like no one has ever high-rolled before, blocking off vast chunks of time on the calendar for the IPL, raking in absurd amounts from TV deals, and enticing more countries, players, businesses, and cowardly politicians into the fray.
The fact that we are not riding the gravy train for Indian cricket has nothing to do with the Briefing seeming unhappy about this. It is a result of our morals.
We thought we were friends.
Greetings, BCCI.
We wish you luck. Your president looks handsome on the covers of his magazines.
We are writing this after getting a fresh proposal from the ICC that states the BCCI will get 38.5% of the organization’s net income for the following four years. India is the country that provides the most value in media rights. Therefore, it stands to reason that the BCCI will benefit the most from the ICC’s earnings.
We were shocked that we only got 6.89% and 6.25%, or less than $40 million annually. It is similar to New Zealand and practically as little as Pakistan.
Please pardon BCCI, but there may have been a mistake. Were we not brothers when we banded together in 2014 to divide the enormous chunks of the ICC’s net income among the three of us? Did not all of us come up with a justification for this lionizing? How could this possibly have gone against us?
We won’t seriously suggest that an equal atmosphere at the ICC benefits the global game or that it would eventually harm one team to dominate the others in international tournaments. The idea was to control them all at once.
Concerned,
Cricket Australia and the England and Wales Cricket Board
Please don’t be sad it’s over; be happy it occurred instead.
“Bro, remember when there were just the two of us?
Imperial Cricket Council forever, with a heart-eye symbol.
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Dramatic Asia Cup
The classic quote from Oscar Wilde goes, “Everything in the world is about sex, apart from the Asia Cup. The Asia Cup is about time constraints.
The Pakistan Cricket Board is slated to host this year’s competition, which virtually everyone would agree would be fantastic preparation for the World Cup. And the PCB wants to HOST it rather than merely host. The “take the profits but play the games in the UAE” nonsense is untrue. The Asia Cup has to return home, baby. When the Pindi guys approached too close, they would hold it tightly and show it the biryani restaurants of Karachi, the buildings of Lahore, and the broad avenues of Islamabad.
But India and Pakistan are determined to make this reunion miserable for everyone again, much like the aunts who head the opposing parts of the family. India has proposed that its matches be played in a neutral site because they are hesitant to travel to Pakistan. To the delight of SLC, the BCCI even went so far as to extend invitations to the IPL final to the leaders of the Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, and ACC boards, while also suggesting Sri Lanka as a potential replacement location. Of course, the BCCI wouldn’t abandon its friends the minute it no longer needed them.
But is this how the significant South Asian boards should act? Should there not be goodwill based on shared joys? The naagin dance between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, rioting in the streets between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the danger of nuclear war between the “big boys,” and frantic gesticulating between Virat Kohli and Naveen-ul-Haq are examples of these joys.
The schedule is still in the air, leaving teams like Nepal, who should be playing in a significant event after winning 13 of their past 14 ODIs, in a precarious position.
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