ICC decides to roll back Big Three system

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Saturday agreed in principle to revise the ICC constitution, paving way for rolling back the Big Three system and ensuring more equivalence among the members of the body, said the ICC in a statement.

The decision was taken at the first ICC Board meeting of 2017 in Dubai. The ICC Board agreed to revise financial distribution, ensuring a more equitable distribution of revenues.

It also agreed to further progress on future international cricket structures and agreement around the consistent use of Decision Review System (DRS).

The council's board agreed to work collaboratively on the detail of the constitution and model, with a view to achieve a final sign off at the April Board meeting and submission to the full ICC Council in June.

“Today was an important step forward for the future of the ICC and cricket around the world. The proposals from the working group to reverse the resolutions of 2014 and deliver a revised constitution and financial model were accepted by the ICC Board," said ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar following the meeting.

“I want the ICC to be reasonable and fair in our approach to all 105 Members and the revised constitution and financial model does that. There are still details to work through and concerns to be addressed, but the principle of change is agreed and not for debate."

International cricket structures
The top brass of the ICC identified a preferred model for all three formats of the sport. This framework accommodates existing agreements which will be presented to the ICC Board for full consideration in April.

According to the framework, a nine-team Test league will be run over a two-year cycle. Remaining three Test teams will be guaranteed a consistent and confirmed schedule of Test matches against all other teams.

Similarly, a 13-team ODI league will be run over a three-year period leading to the qualification for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. It was also agreed that the regional T20 competition structures will be developed as a pathway to qualification for the ICC World T20.

The session also agreed that a scheduling summit will now be held in March before a detailed proposal is put to the ICC Board in April.

Demerit Points
The meeting also agreed that a system of 'Demerit Points' be introduced. The points will remain active for a rolling five year period.

When a venue accumulates 5 'Demerit Points', its ICC accreditation will be suspended for a period of 12 months. Should a venue reach 10 points its accreditation will be suspended for 24 months.

ICC Medical Advisory Committee
The meeting also approved the establishment of an ICC Medical Advisory Committee to consider and advise on sports medicine and sports science issues relating to international cricket. It will also provide input into ICC policies and regulations that have a related sports medicine or sports science aspect.

Amendment in ICC’s Anti-Corruption Code
The Chief Executives’ Committee authorised the management to develop an amendment to the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Code in order to permit the use of cell phone data extraction equipment.

This would include exploring the legal aspects of introducing the technology, exploration of the technology itself and liaising with all interested parties before reverting to the ICC Board with a full proposal for consideration later in 2017.

Other key decisions
Other key decisions include, the usage of DRS in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, all televised games at the ICC Women’s World Cup and all future ICC World Twenty20 televised games with one review per side.

The meeting approved playing conditions for both the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy and Women’s World Cup. It was confirmed that both semi-finals and finals would go to a super over in case of a tie.

Furthermore, Afghanistan Cricket Board’s Ahmad Shah Abdali Regional 4-day Tournament was awarded First Class Status, and by extension, the Shpageeza T20 League was awarded List A status.

The dates for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20, 2020 in Australia were confirmed as February 21, 2020 to March 8, 2020.


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[H!TchHiker]

Good to hear ..Big 3 was simply a blackmailing..

 

[Lahorie]

About damn time !!!

 

[Kambojaric]

Great news. The big 3 system was a joke.

 

[RiazHaq]

Hope ICC is learning from NFL, the world's most successful sports franchise.

The world's most successful sports franchise today is the National Football League (NFL) in the United States. It treats all of its 32 member teams equally with equal vote in decision making. Over 70% of its revenue is shared equally among its member teams.

NFL has a highly lucrative business because of the extraordinary popularity of football in the United States. Over nine years, starting in 2014, CBS, Fox and NBC will together will pay an average of about $3 billion a year, more than 50 percent higher than their prior deals, according to a report in New York Times. Altogether, the four networks, in addition to DirecTV, which pays $1 billion a year for its Sunday Ticket satellite package, will pay the N.F.L. more annually in TV rights than any sports league has ever been paid.

Simon Rottenberg, an economist at University of Chicago, published what is considered as the first significant paper on the subject of the economics of sport, "The Baseball Players' Labor Market" in 1956. He stressed the importance to sporting competition of uncertainty of outcome and distribution of talent: "The nature of the industry is such that competitors must be of approximately equal ‘size’ if any are to be successful; this seems to be a unique attribute of professional competitive sports." This ‘invariance principle’ was because a league in which the strong simply soaked up all the talent would defeat itself.

The naked power grab by cricket boards of Australia, England and India is indeed an "Unholy Trinity". It defies the basic economics of sports as described by University of Chicago economist Simon Rottenberg. It results in unequal competition by weakening the majority of the national cricket teams by starving them of needed revenues to train, promote and reward the best and the brightest players. It will badly hurt international cricket. PCB and other cricket boards should strongly oppose it.


http://www.riazhaq.com/2014/01/icc-big-3-will-australia-england-and.html

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Don't care like PSL anyways more

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

BCCI given taste of its own medicine

The majority of the other members at the ICC were united against a BCCI representation weakened by domestic turmoil and took advantage to vote in the new constitution

Mull for a moment on the ironies that emerged during Saturday's meeting of the ICC Board in Dubai. When the new model for revenue distribution, in which the BCCI stood to make substantially less than it did under the Big Three model, came up for discussion the Indian board questioned the calculations and the science behind these new numbers. To which no one said, but really should have: #Facepalm.

Because when the BCCI, CA and the ECB presented their financial model three years ago, a number of objectors asked the Big Three the same question. Where is the science behind this? What is the formula by which you arrived at these numbers?

There wasn't one, was the answer. It was a nifty bit of reverse engineering, which began with the BCCI throwing up a figure based on an estimate of what the ICC might earn by way of rights. CA and ECB then negotiated it down to something more palatable to them.

There isn't any science behind the new model either, as the authors apparently admitted in their report. It's true. Try putting the ICC's publicly stated guiding principles for this model into a calculator: "good conscience", "common sense and simplicity", "enabling every Member to grow", "revenue generated by Members", "greater transparency" [smirk], and "recognition of interdependency amongst Members, that cricket playing nations [sic] each other and the more strong nations, the better for the sport". No, not really.

At Saturday's meeting, the BCCI had also asked for the vote on the new constitution to be deferred. Why was there such a rush to get things voted upon and approved so quickly, it wondered, when there was another board meeting in April, before the AGM in June when such changes will be formalised. ROFL at this objection a little, when remembering the bullying, haggling and the undue haste with which the Big Three pulled off its coup.

On Saturday, the BCCI complained the new model was presented to them as a fait accompli. Well, blow us all down if those weren't the exact words used by several member boards when they were blindsided by the Big Three's first position paper at a special meeting in January 2014. They were told to take it or leave it, and that leaving it wasn't really an option.

The final, abiding irony, of course, you will not have missed. Five men made up the working group that produced these new recommendations and models. One of them was David Peever, chairman of a board that so faithfully hid in the shadow of the BCCI when the Big Three revamp was foisted upon the game. Peever at least has the excuse that he is not Wally Edwards, who was CA chairman at the time. What excuse does Giles Clarke have, part of this working group and the voice on the other shoulder of the BCCI three years ago? No, that's right: he doesn't. And nothing captures the paucity in cricket administration better than Clarke once bringing in the very constitution he is now trying to rip up.



Go on, linger over these ironies, lighten your heart a little if you felt pain and anger at the start of 2014. Because there may not be much more to take from this weekend in Dubai, not yet anyway.

For one, though the pleasure of these ironies might have its place, that does not mean it is guilt free. There is no science, no data behind this new financial model either, and as the BCCI representative Vikram Limaye is said to have pointed out at the meeting - two wrongs don't make a right.

The new model could be said to be almost as arbitrary as the Big Three's, except that the BCCI has not been involved in its construction. In fact, it is said that the lack of a formula behind the new model is explained in the report as a result of the lack of a formula in the Big Three's version. He who gets to write history has won it, right? And the others just bear the consequences.

It is to cricket's discredit that it has not been able - or been bothered enough - to work out a distribution model that is pragmatic and fair; one beyond a general principle that says, "The Indian cricket economy is massive, let's give the BCCI some more and the others what is left." There is no publicly available research, academic or otherwise, that breaks down the exact nature of cricket's economy, of where the money comes from for ICC events, for bilateral games, for domestic Twenty20 leagues. If there are such documents, they should be made public, otherwise all cricket can do is to continue to pretend to be a professionalised, leading global sport and hide the fact that it is run by people who are not really sports management professionals.

And the haste to push this vote through was, in a different way, as opportunistic as the Big Three's methods three years ago. Shashank Manohar, the ICC chairman, and everyone else knew the time to strike was now, that never again would they come upon a BCCI administration so frazzled by domestic turmoil so as to be almost completely isolated at the ICC. The BCCI was in no position to put up a stand or round up enough members to its side. The Board meeting was said to have been fairly tension free - in part because the majority, including CA and the ECB (yes, the irony), was united. But rushing the minority into a vote, when they had not had time or opportunity to consider the consequences of that vote - well, some might even call that bullying.

So what we have - in principle, the ICC reminded us - is great change on the horizon. Principles can be beautiful but they can also end up meaning nothing. In principle, right now, means nothing, or at best it is a reminder that change isn't certain yet.

Note, in particular, the tone of what a BCCI member told ESPNcricinfo after the meeting on Saturday evening. A 7-2 vote in favour of the new model, he said, was actually good because it showed the BCCI that it could get support. "They need an 8-2 majority," he said. "And the vote cannot go forward if four members oppose the resolution. We will get them."

Sri Lanka is already on the BCCI's side, and Zimbabwe abstained from voting; a few threats of India cancelling fixtures, a couple of promises here and there, and boom. And why wouldn't the BCCI link acceptance of a new distribution to the new structures of international cricket, given that the latter means so much to so many? Why wouldn't the BCCI subvert new structures, by promising members extra matches? All the BCCI needs is a bit of time to settle and get to work.

Even this interim, haphazard BCCI delegation had already begun doing so, at the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting on Friday evening. And it did not go unnoticed that a key IPL figure from the N Srinivasan era, who had worked on the Big Three proposals, popped up in Dubai during the meetings, offering guidance and advice. Just a reminder, you know; and as a corollary, a reminder that cricket lacks a central, constitutional strength in how it should be, that it is a sport which can be shaped according to the simple desires of its strongest members.

Still, at least we'll have the ironies.

Osman Samiuddin is a senior editor at ESPNcricinfo

© ESPN Sports Media Ltd.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/1081080.html

 

[BATMAN]

Is this sign of BCCI loosing its absolute control over ICC? or its just economic reasons?

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

May be Bharat can convince Najam sethi that they will play gurenteed series in Pakistan to get PAkistan's vote lol did not happened this time we voted against their stupid system

 

[Stephen Cohen]

May be Bharat can convince Najam sethi that they will play gurenteed series in Pakistan to get PAkistan's vote lol did not happened this time we voted against their stupid system

We can protect our Interests WITHOUT playing a series with Pakistan

BCCI will fight tooth and nail to protect its interests

The fight has just begun

If we boycott the champions Trophy in June ICC will be Fooked

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...resent-case-pre-vote/articleshow/56990012.cms

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Vote for us vote for us , hindu nation calling on Najam Sethi , vote vote for our guy , remember us , SARC nation , desi desi friend friend - shake shake head. Remember the time when I said "Thank you written end of my email" now vote for me like before. We will have 7 Bilateral series with Pakistan just vote for us this time

Pakistan

Indian caste system collapses

No more BIG 3 garbage

Indian rep PULLED down from his seat

My power is gone ..... NOOOOOO
My vote right is same that level of Papua New Guinea

I am not Big 3.... feeling dizzy all of sudden

 

[Safriz]

India as the Big three of ICC did no good to the sports. Only vented their venom against Pakistan by arranging bans on our bowlers, unreasonable fines and creating hurdles for Pakistan in playing cricket.

 

[graphican]

Good news for cricket.

 

[Jackdaws]

Firstly, the guy spearheaded the change was an Indian - Shashank Manohar. Secondly, the Indian Board has been overhauled by the Supreme Court of India and most of the old guard has been put to pasture. Obviously, the previous system was unfair and it was decided by India, England and Australia. Why just blame India?

Lastly, as far as playing with Pak is concerned - all bilateral ties are subject to Government approval. Besides, no one in his right mind wants to tour Pakistan.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

The Big 3 , always conspired to arrange the best series for their own teams before world cup as well so that their teams would be going into Tournaments (World cups) with optimum level of match training

It was real shaddy stuff happening , every next day bowler is reviewed for his bowling

Top guy in Bangladesh , performing well , before key match , lets check your bowling hand oh ... looks like it is crooked

Pakistani batsman made 100-200 runs , hmm looks like we need to fine this player ....

Oh this player , he had slow over rate , here you go fine , and whole team fined