Cricket Australia (CA) has made it clear that it doesn’t intend
to roll back its commitment to the Champions League (CL), despite the
impact on Test preparations, insisting that the money generated by the
tournament was important to develop the game at the grassroot level.
Media rights of the Twenty20 event were sold to ESPN-Star Sports for $ 900 million in 2008, in a decade-long deal, and CA has a one-third share in the tournament with India (50 per cent) and South Africa (17 per cent). The annual dividend to CA is about $ six million.
This year’s event was staged later than usual due to the ICC World T20, messing up Australia’s preparations for the high-profile Test series against South Africa.
‘We’re in Champions League for the long term, and the benefit it creates for Australian cricket is quite significant, and that flows right down to community cricket,’ said a CA spokesman.
‘We’re a shareholder in it and we benefit from a share of the media rights and that makes a significant contribution to the financial performance of Australian cricket, which flows down to clubs, schools, indigenous programmes and the like. We’re just not in a position to compromise that,’ he added.
Injured all-rounder Shane Watson was summoned home early from the Champions League but Australia’s coaching hierarchy wanted him to skip the tournament altogether.
Pat Cummins, a member of the Sydney Sixers’ winning team, had developed a stress injury in his back, and CA team performance manager Pat Howard was upset that he wasn’t informed about the pacer’s soreness straightaway.
Media rights of the Twenty20 event were sold to ESPN-Star Sports for $ 900 million in 2008, in a decade-long deal, and CA has a one-third share in the tournament with India (50 per cent) and South Africa (17 per cent). The annual dividend to CA is about $ six million.
This year’s event was staged later than usual due to the ICC World T20, messing up Australia’s preparations for the high-profile Test series against South Africa.
‘We’re in Champions League for the long term, and the benefit it creates for Australian cricket is quite significant, and that flows right down to community cricket,’ said a CA spokesman.
‘We’re a shareholder in it and we benefit from a share of the media rights and that makes a significant contribution to the financial performance of Australian cricket, which flows down to clubs, schools, indigenous programmes and the like. We’re just not in a position to compromise that,’ he added.
Injured all-rounder Shane Watson was summoned home early from the Champions League but Australia’s coaching hierarchy wanted him to skip the tournament altogether.
Pat Cummins, a member of the Sydney Sixers’ winning team, had developed a stress injury in his back, and CA team performance manager Pat Howard was upset that he wasn’t informed about the pacer’s soreness straightaway.
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