April 27, 2017 6:40 PM

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ICC slashes BCCI revenue share by nearly half

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has slashed Indian cricket board's revenue share by nearly half. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will now get a total of 293 million US dollars or nearly 1875 crore rupees for the eight-year revenue cycle.This is a major drop from the 570 million or about 3647 crore rupees the BCCI was getting till last year. The ICC today declared the amounts that would go to its affiliated members. Notwithstanding the whopping cut, the BCCI will still get the biggest share in the new ICC revenue model. In a statement, ICC said ECB (England) will get 143 million, Zimbabwe Cricket 94 million and the remaining seven full members 132 million US dollars each.Associate Members will receive funding of 280 million US dollars. The ICC statement said this revenue model was passed by13 votes to one. The decision came at the end of five days of ICC's Board and Committee meetings in Dubai.

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