Himanshi Agarwal
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Are you a cricket fan like every third Indian out there?
Where do you think the huge flow of money in a cricket club comes from?
Where do you think the huge flow of money in a cricket club comes from?
Top 10 richest cricket clubs are --
1. Board of Control for Cricket In India - $295 Million.
2. Cricket South Africa - $79 Million
3. England and Wales Cricket Board - $59 Million.
4. Pakistan Cricket Board - $55 Million.
5. Bangladesh Cricket Board - $51 Million.
6. Zimbabwe cricket - $38 Million.
7. Cricket Australia - $24 Million.
8. Sri Lanka Cricket - $20 Million.
9. Cricket West Indies - $15 Million
10. New Zealand - $9 Million
1. Board of Control for Cricket In India - $295 Million.
The BCCI is India's richest sporting body and the richest cricket board in the world. Most other boards depend on their matches with India for the largest chunk of their income. BCCI does not depend on the Government of India for its finances.
In 2020, with US$405 million out of US$1534 million India had 26% share in the ICC FTP income disbursed to 10 test playing nations, while ECB received US$139 million as the second highest earner.
In 2020, to revive the financial health of other boards after the global economic decline and the significantly reduced income of most boards due to the COVID-19 pandemic ICC will rejig its FTP to schedule more bilateral matches of others nations with India.
2. Cricket South Africa - $79 Million
The South Africa national cricket team also known as Proteas represents South Africa in men's international cricket (after South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the 'king protea'), is administered by Cricket South Africa. South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.
4. Pakistan Cricket Board - $55 Million.
Following the establishment of Pakistan as an independent dominion of the British Empire in 1947, professional and amateur cricket commenced in the same year, seeing as local infrastructure had already been established when the country was part of the British Raj. Cricket matches were arranged informally until 1948, when a Board of Control was formally instituted. Pakistan was admitted to the Imperial Cricket Conference (currently known as International Cricket Council) in July 1952, and has since been a full member, playing Test cricket. The team's first Test series took place in India between October and December 1952.
The PCB also runs its own cricket league which is named as the Pakistan Super League.
6. Zimbabwe cricket - $38 Million.
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), previously known as the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) until 2004,[3] is the governing body for the sport of cricket in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Cricket is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and administers the Zimbabwe national cricket team, organising Test tours, One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket, including the Castle Logan Cup, the Coca-Cola Metbank Pro50 Championship and the Stanbic Bank 20 Series in Zimbabwe.
8. Cricket Australia - $24 million -
The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket. As the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing in the first ever Test match in 1877, the team also plays One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season and the first T20I, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season, winning both games. The team draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament and the Big Bash League.
8 Sri Lanka Cricket - $20 Million.
Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is one of the twelve nations that take part in test cricket and one of the six nations that has won a cricket world cup. Cricket is played at professional, semi-professional and recreational levels in the country and international cricket matches are watched with interest by a large proportion of the population.
9. Cricket West Indies - $15 Million
Cricket West Indies (CWI), formerly known as West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Indies). It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control, but changed its name to West Indies Cricket Board in 1996. In November 2015, the Board resolved to rename itself as Cricket West Indies as part of a restructuring exercise that would also see the creation of a separate commercial body. This rebranding formally occurred in May 2017.