by sussexpob » Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:51 am
The article makes no sense to me. The point is being made that its cost money to change a 50 over style event into a T20 World Cup because of the extra teams involved leading to extra costs, but extra teams mean extra matches, and extra matches in the ICCs flagship event surely means extra revenue? The World Cup's sh*t money as far as I have read in the past, and nearly a billion people tuned into the last one in India alone!! If we wanted to be honest we'd say its the women and junior events that probably cost money.
Also, I am not sure how new test teams contribute to the ICC financial model; distribution is based on a percentage of the overall pie as a surplus, so it costs each team money if more people draw from it, but it costs the ICC nothing. And the ICC have zero financial impact, either outs or in goings, on bilateral series. So the more tests going on has no impact to them.
Either way, considering we know how much the players are getting paid, I do wonder where all the cash is going. You look at football and vast, vast percentages of club revenues (by far the biggest portion) goes to wages, and yet football makes a lot of money.
Wages are well off the spectrum in cricket in those revenue calculations, so where does these billions drip to?
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