“I think, gee, I’m at the top of the game and I can’t tell you who’s playing around the world. In fact, I didn’t realize until I read about Marco Jansson’s seven What happened was that Sri Lanka were on the South African wicket this morning,” Barclay said. “So we’ve lost perspective. It’s not good for the game at all. It’s a mess. The calendar is incredibly congested and the selfishness is such that it’s almost impossible to sort them all out, because no one will sacrifice their ” Material.”
Barclay said he hoped Shah would be able to take advantage of India’s stature and take the game out of that crisis. “I think he’s got a great opportunity to use what he’s got in his background to help India take the game to another level, but without taking it over to India,” Barkley said. “We’re really lucky for India, they’ve made a huge contribution by all measures to the game, but as a country with so much power and influence it distorts a lot of other results, which is not necessarily helpful. . Of that global development.
“Jai has the potential to bring India even more to the international stage. There are many things India can do to help unify and grow the game, including helping to pool off-shore rights commercially For example, small full members and emerging countries work together with the ICC to help members benefit, using their influence to open up new regions and markets. We do.”
Barkley also warned that the game could be forced to make an imminent financial adjustment as part of its next media and commercial rights deal. The current rights agreement is the most lucrative deal signed by the ICC, worth over US$3 billion. The bulk of that value has come from the Indian market where Disney-Star* has the rights to broadcast ICC events until 2027. This has resulted in revenue distribution to Full Members of a size that they have never seen before, and has been particularly important for members such as the PCB, NZC, CWI, SLC and CSA for whom annual ICC revenues exceed their total earnings. Is an important part of.
“If you really want to make a political statement, don’t play them in the World Cup. Sure, it may cost you a place in the semi-finals, but principles are principles. This is not about half-baked principles. “
Greg Barclay on Cricket Australia’s stance on Afghanistan
Barclay said the deals were ultimately “much higher” than the actual value and would improve over time.
“At some point, it will correct,” he said. “It’s a market. Is it going to be a sharp, severe correction? Or is it going to be a long, slow correction? Or maybe a Alternative broadcaster coming into the market? But it’s been 10 years since New Zealand Cricket had a deal with Amazon, but it didn’t work out, so I don’t think they’re going to be that white knight. Which is what everyone is speculating about. I just think that what is in front of us is what we get from what we have.
“I know that when we did our current deal it was much higher than the valuation we got before going to market. We got £2.4bn from India. The next biggest deal is UK Sky. They signed an eight-year deal , which was £237 million, so that’s 10% of the India deal for double the period of time, so if we go back to the original estimate of £800 million that’s more than half of the ICC’s revenue. It may be possible at present. There is no obvious replacement.”
One of the major issues marking Barkley’s time there was the Afghanistan Cricket Board not being allowed to field a women’s team by the country’s Taliban government. Fielding a women’s team and program is a central tenet of full membership and despite calls to suspend membership, Barclay said the ICC was right by not sanctioning Afghanistan’s membership status.
“It’s not the fault of the Afghanistan board. They used to have women’s cricket. I think our approach has been right,” she said. “It would be easy to take Afghanistan out, but their board has done nothing wrong. They’re just working under an order and a series of laws that say this is what you’re supposed to do. I don’t think that would happen to them.” Put some pressure on the ruling party there to expel them.
“Maybe I’m a bit naïve, but I think cricket is a huge force for good out there and it brings a lot of joy to a lot of people. It’s better to leave it there and hopefully it helps people to some extent.” can promote.” A change.”
Instead, Barclay pointed to the double standards of boards – such as Cricket Australia – which have canceled several bilateral series with the Afghanistan men’s team but played them at ICC events, as a sanction. “If you really want to make a political statement, don’t play them in the World Cup. Sure, it might cost you a spot in the semi-finals, but principles are principles. This isn’t about half principles.”
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