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Cricket Capital
by Cricket Capital
The Business of Cricket and Sports
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West Indies cricket and the FTP revenue sharing gap
West Indies players have had their salaries cut by 25%, and the cause sits in how the ICC's Future Tours Programme splits the money. Chris Daring, CEO of Cricket West Indies, has called the current revenue sharing model not equitable. I agree with him. Under the current arrangement, the home...
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2027 Cricket World Cup format change - my views
The ICC announced a 14-team 2027 World Cup, and countries, players and associates planned around it. The new format sends three teams into a preliminary super series where two are eliminated after two matches and never reach the 12-team main group. I'm not buying the ICC's description of that as…
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The Players the ICC Forgot to Ask
Under the ICC's revised 2027 ODI World Cup format, the three lowest-ranked qualified teams will face a preliminary round where only one advances to the main event. Two go home. Scott Edwards, Richie Berrington, Gerhard Erasmus, and Paul Stirling have all spoken out against it, and their objection...
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Disappointing and Disrespectful - Cricket Scotland and Netherlands Call Out the ICC
Cricket Scotland and Cricket Netherlands have gone on record describing the ICC's handling of the 2027 ODI World Cup format changes as disappointing, disrespectful, and a threat to the credibility of international cricket. These are not outside critics. These are ICC members. Their joint…
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Small Cricket Markets Have a Better Option
The European T20 Premier League is a new cricket competition bringing together teams from Ireland, Scotland, and the Netherlands, representing cities like Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. Each of those three countries is a modest cricket market on its own, too small…
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Cricket Capital
Hello everyone. Now, I’ve worked in international cricket for over two decades, and I learned something very quickly. Some of the most important shots in cricket are never played with a bat. And some of the most vicious bouncers are not bowled with a ball. They happen in committee meetings and in...
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ICC Cricket World Cup format change - Reaction of the World Cricketers Association
When the ICC announced changes to the ODI Cricket World Cup 2027 format, the World Cricketers Association pushed back on four specific grounds: transparency, consultation, the sporting logic of the new structure, and the human cost of mid-cycle format changes. The WCA concedes the ICC's authority...
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The Law Running Professional Sport
Sports law is not a single rulebook handed down by one governing body. It is contract law, employment law, intellectual property, anti-doping, and criminal law applied to the specific structures of international federations, franchise leagues, and broadcast ecosystems. Cricket illustrates why…
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The Spirit of Cricket is Bigger Than Winning
The MCC places the spirit of cricket right at the front of its laws, before any rule about how the game is played. The laws tell you what you can and cannot do. The spirit tells you how to behave while doing it. At its core, that means mutual respect: for your captain, your teammates, your...
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Cricket Italy - T10 League
Italy is launching its first city-based franchise T10 league, Italia T10 Cricket, with six teams set to play in Rome later this year. The Italian Cricket Federation has officially endorsed the venture, and matches will be streamed internationally. That combination of private commercial initiative...
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Afghanistan, Ireland and Zimbabwe Belong in the WTC
Afghanistan, Ireland, and Zimbabwe are full ICC members with test status, yet none of them have been included in the World Test Championship since it began. Reports now suggest that plans to expand the WTC from nine to twelve teams are stalling, with the financial cost of staging test cricket…
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Sports Administrators Serve the Members, Not Themselves
No one owns a sport. Recent developments at FIFA have forced that principle back into the conversation, and it applies just as cleanly to the ICC, the IOC, World Rugby, and every other international governing body worth examining. Administrators are paid employees who hold delegated authority,...
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The ICC's New Governance Committee Needs to Look in the Mirror!
The ICC has formed a governance committee, and my first recommendation is straightforward: read the Woolf Report. Lord Woolf's 2012 report identified serious structural and governance weaknesses in international cricket that remain unaddressed over a decade later. That's not a mark of a complex...
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The ICC's 2027 World Cup Is Really a 12-Team Event
The ICC bills the 2027 Men's ODI World Cup as a 14-team tournament. Follow the actual structure and you arrive at 12. Two associate nations that previously earned six group-stage matches each now play a two-match pre-tournament round-robin, and whichever two lose go home before the main event...
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Lords Cricket Ground - the Home of Cricket
Lord's Cricket Ground is not the home of cricket because someone declared it so. It earns that title quietly, through the weight you feel the moment you pass through the Grace Gates and the noise of London fades. I've stood in grounds across the cricketing world, from the Wankhede in Mumbai to…
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Cricket is Complex - the Cricket Pitch
No other major sport does what cricket does: the surface you compete on physically changes beneath you over the course of a game. A Test match runs five days, and the pitch deteriorates progressively throughout. What plays reliably on day one can be treacherous by day three, with cracks forming,...
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Sir Garfield “Garry” Sobers
Sir Garfield Sobers first entered my life through his autobiography, King Cricket, which I read many times as a boy growing up in the 1960s and 70s. In that era of no internet and no YouTube, cricket heroes existed only in newspapers, radio commentary, and grainy television replays. Sir Garry and...
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Muhammad Ali - the Greatest
June 3rd, 2026 marks ten years since Muhammad Ali died, and the tributes still flow from people who never watched a single fight. That staying power has nothing to do with punching speed or heavyweight records. Ali was, as Faisal Hasnain puts it, the conscience of sport itself, a man whose…
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Cricket Should Go After the Sharks
The ICC is investigating the T20 World Cup match between Canada and New Zealand, and the outcome will almost certainly follow a familiar pattern: a player or two gets banned, a statement about integrity gets issued, and the people who actually run match-fixing walk away untouched. Every serious...
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Bradman and a Treasure Lost Forever
A tattered 1949 biography called Bradman, written by Arthur Norris, shaped my love for cricket more than any match I ever watched live. I found it at age ten on my dad's bookshelf and read it a dozen times or more. What it gave me wasn't statistics or grainy photographs, but living presences:...
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Cricket Governance - France Cricket
France Cricket is not recognized by its own national sporting authorities, and yet its representative has been elected to the ICC board to advise on global governance. That single fact is the thread I pull on here, because it raises questions about how international cricket oversight actually…
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Is Cricket Really the World's 2nd Largest Sport?
Only two cricketers made Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in sport. That small number raised a harder question: if cricket carries so little global influence, what do we make of the claim that it's the world's second largest sport? Cricket administrators have repeated that...
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ICC 2025 Accounts - is it $183 Million Behind Plan?
The ICC posted a $543 million surplus in 2025, and that number made headlines. But measured against the ICC's own projections for its current four-year commercial rights cycle, the picture looks considerably different. The target was roughly $600 million per year in surplus distributed to member...
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The ICC Made $543 million in 2025 - but is that good?
The ICC's 2025 financial statements show over $756 million in revenue and a surplus of $543 million, a margin of nearly 72%. More than 93% of that income came from three events: the Champions Trophy, the Women's World Cup, and the World Test Championship final. The balance sheet now holds over…
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When the ICC stood by its Principles
For nearly a hundred years, the ICC held its annual conference at Lord's in London. In 2008, after Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka was denied a visa to attend on political grounds, the ICC drew a line: grant the visa, or the conference moves. The British government held firm. So did the...
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Cricket Has Money but No Global Influence
Two cricketers out of 100. That's cricket's share of Time magazine's inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in sport, and it says something cricket's administrators have been slow to hear. Smriti Mandhana and Temba Bavuma both made the cut, not for statistics or earnings, but for what...
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The Real Spirit of Cricket
Courtney Walsh had every legal right to run out Salim Jafar in the 1987 World Cup. That dismissal would have kept West Indies alive in the tournament. He warned Salim instead, walked back to his mark, and bowled again. West Indies lost two balls later. That moment is what the spirit of cricket...
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The WTC Points System is fundamentally flawed
Every win in the ICC World Test Championship earns exactly 12 points, regardless of whether you beat the top-ranked side away from home in brutal conditions or beat the ninth-ranked team on a pitch your groundsman tailored to your preferences. That flat structure is a fundamental problem, and…
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Cricket’s Silence of the Lambs!
Cricket governance is at its lowest ebb, and the damage being done across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Italy, France, and the USA is not purely the fault of those causing it. It falls equally on those watching it happen and saying nothing. The French cricket board has lost its license to...
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Cricket’s VIP Culture
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on a standing room ticket he bought himself. No suite, no entourage, no special treatment. Just a mayor standing with the fans, watching the game the way everyone else did. It's a small act that carries a pointed...
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Mirra Andreeva: Thank you to Me! and my Psychologist!
Mirra Andreeva won the French Open at 19, and her victory speech included something I genuinely hadn't heard before: a public thank-you to her psychologist. At the highest level of sport, the mental game does enormous work, yet the psychologist almost never gets named alongside the coaches and...
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The ICC's Silence on Bangladesh Is the Story
Two months ago, the Bangladesh government unilaterally dissolved a democratically elected cricket board, and the ICC issued no statement, no reaction, and no acknowledgement that it had happened. The ICC's constitution exists precisely to prevent this kind of government interference in member…
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Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of Cricket
Muhammad Ali died on June 3rd, 2015. Ten years on, the measure of his greatness still sits far outside the ring. A three-time heavyweight champion who moved like a featherweight, Ali was the most recognizable face on the planet at his peak, and he used that platform deliberately, for something...
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Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, and Ireland Belong in the WTC
Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, and Ireland are joining the ICC World Test Championship, and I'm going on record early to congratulate all three nations before the official announcement is even made. Keeping them out of the WTC was never justifiable on cricketing grounds, and the ICC is finally doing the...
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The ICC was warned in 2012 by Lord Woolf
The ICC was warned about its governance crisis in 2012, when Lord Wolf concluded that cricket cannot be run properly when politics, national interests, and money drive decisions. That report went largely unactioned, and the consequences are visible now: the India-Pakistan standoff, the Bangladesh...
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Stop Using the Captain as a Dartboard
Every time a cricket team loses, the captain gets roasted while selectors, coaches, the director of cricket, and administrators walk away untouched. Captains don't pick squads, don't control contracts, and don't design long-term strategy. They work with the players they've been given, inside a...
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What Makes a Cricket Board Financially Stable
Cricket boards that endure financially, the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia among them, share a common structure: diversified income. Long-term broadcast deals, strong home series, commercial partnerships, and disciplined cost management all working together means no single...
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Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghanistan Belong in the WTC
Twelve countries hold Test status, but only nine play in the World Test Championship. Zimbabwe, Ireland, and Afghanistan have been left out since the competition's inception, and the ICC is now reconsidering that arrangement. It is a correction that should have happened from day one. The case for...
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ICC Keeps Hosting Cricket Where Cricket Already Lives
Hosting the Women's T20 World Cup in England and calling it a step toward growing the game is a bit like selling biryani in Mumbai and announcing you've done a great job spreading biryani around the world. England is the home of cricket. The fans are already there. The infrastructure is already...
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When Your Face Sells Millions Without You
A video game company builds an entire product around a famous cricketer, using their face, physique, batting style, and signature celebrations. The game sells millions of copies. The cricketer never signs a contract, never gets a call, and never receives a rupee. That scenario is not…
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Seven Objections Just Blew Up USA Cricket's Bankruptcy Settlement
Seven parties filed objections to the ACE rescue package for USA Cricket's bankruptcy case, and the most consequential one came with a competing bid attached. The National Cricket League submitted its own offer directly challenging the trustee's claim that ACE was the only viable funder…
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$24,000 to grow the game
$24,000 to grow the game! Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@cri9259/post/24000-to-grow-the-game-
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The ICC Watches Government Interference Happen and Does Nothing
The ICC's constitution prohibits government interference in national cricket boards, but the enforcement mechanism is broken. Instead of acting on observable violations, the ICC waits for the affected board to formally complain. This creates an impossible situation: boards that have been…
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