India might pull out from featuring in Champions Trophy

Despite the former BCCI president, Shashank Manohar heading the ICC (International Cricket Council) board, the dispute between BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) and ICC hit the headlines on Wednesday. BCCI have warned the ICC that they might withdraw the Indian team from participating in the next year’s Champions Trophy in England after not being called for the ICC’s finance committee meeting in Dubai.

BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke said that the board is humiliated after the exclusion from the finance committee meeting. “These are the committees where all the important decisions are taken — finance, commerce, and chief executives committee; India not having a representative (in those committees) is a humiliation for us, he told The Indian Express.

“We will tell the ICC, ‘either you amend this or we will decide what to do to protect India’s cricket interests globally’. It could be anything. We may even not play the Champions Trophy. Better sense may prevail, and we may not reach that stage at all. But there are so many options,” he added.

Earlier, there was a conflict over the budget allocation for major ICC events. ICC proposed an approximate budget of $ 135 million for organizing the Champions Trophy 2017 in the United Kingdom. BCCI has expressed its concerns about the budget that has been allotted as it is three times of that of $ 45 million that was allocated on to the BCCI for conducting the World T20 2016 in India.

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Gone are those days, where ICC’s voice was almost an echo of BCCI’s voice. Now the two governing bodies headed by Anurag Thakur and Shashank Manohar seem to be having different voices.