Board of Control for Cricket in India Treasurer Arun Dhumal said the board could suffer huge losses if the Indian Premier League is not he...
Board of Control for Cricket in India Treasurer Arun Dhumal said the board could suffer huge losses if the Indian Premier League is not held and the Covid-19 pandemic carries on for a long time.
“We’ll be able to assess it once we know when we’re going to start [the cricket],” Arun Dhumal told Cricbuzz.
“As of now, every bilateral that we miss, we’ll be losing money. And if we’re not able to organise IPL then that’ll lead to a big hit. Not having an IPL would end up with a revenue loss of about Rs 4000 crore,” Dhumal added.
Dhumal also said that most of the cricket boards would prefer playing bilateral series over ICC events as they are more profitable.
“Now every cricket board will be struggling because of the virus. That (bilateral series) adds more money to any cricket board,” he said.
“If individual cricket boards survive then only ICC survives, isn’t it? It’s not that ICC on its own can survive and feed all the cricket boards,” he added.
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Dhumal said the Board has several ideas to recover the losses and get cricket back on its feet once the pandemic eases but there’s no clarity...
