With India claiming 38.5% of ICC’s complete income share for the 2024-27 cycle, former participant Ravi Shastri defended the choice saying India ought to get an excellent greater share contemplating their contribution to the cricket physique’s income.
“I might need extra as a result of many of the cash that’s generated comes from India. So it’s solely honest that they get their share of pound of flesh. It’s relative, it’s economies, if tomorrow there is perhaps one other financial system that’s stronger. Cash would possibly come from there prefer it did within the 70s, 80s and the chunk of the cash went elsewhere. So I feel it’s solely honest and, it simply exhibits within the revenues,” Shastri stated on Wisden.
“When India journey, take a look at the tv rights, take a look at the tv revenue that comes for an India sequence. So it’s solely honest that they get. No matter they’re getting now, if no more,” he added.
🗣️“When India travels, take a look at the tv rights.” 📈
Ravi Shastri believes India deserve an excellent better share of the ICC income 🇮🇳💰 pic.twitter.com/aoPnYfPkZz
— Wisden (@WisdenCricket) June 26, 2025
In the meantime, earlier this yr, the World Cricketers’ Affiliation (WCA) had launched an in depth report titled: ‘Historical past, Embracing Change. A Unified Coherent World Future’ to repair the present “damaged world construction” of cricket.
After a six-month evaluation the WCA got here up with key suggestions which embrace protected home windows for worldwide cricket, extra equitable income distribution mannequin that helps development and aggressive stability, higher regulation of participant actions in T20 leagues and an ICC that may be a world governing physique like FIFA and never a members’ membership.
The report stated the present world cricket’s funds aren’t optimised, balanced or used successfully to realize aggressive stability and development, ensuing within the sport not reaching its world potential.
Furthermore, it additionally says gamers don’t obtain a good incomes relative to the wealth they generate. The report finds that 70% of the revenues are generated in simply three months of the yr and 83% of all income is shared between simply three nations and the income generated by aside from the Massive Three — India, England and Australia — is lower than 4%.
From this, funds to gamers is roughly round 10% of all income. To enhance this, the WCA needs an optimum calendar to be in place which might end in an extra $246 million income yearly. It requires the institution of minimal and most distribution parameters of ICC revenues. For example, it says “a minimal 2% and most 10% for the highest 24 nations, and a minimal 10% distribution collectively for nations 25+.”
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It means the BCCI share will reduce from 38.5% to 10%. The WCA additionally needs in place a centralised World Development and Improvement Fund constructed from a proportion of ICC occasions income, T20 leagues and pooled media rights from CIC.