WI to get nothing from India series despite USD 30 million revenue: Dehring
Cricket West Indies CEO Chris Dehring has criticised the revenue model for bilateral cricket that allows the host country to keep 100 per cent of the series earnings, citing the ongoing white-ball engagement with India from which his nation would "get nothing" from the expected USD 20 to 30 million returns.
The West Indies are due to play the fifth and final T20I of the ongoing series on Saturday in Bengaluru.
Speaking to Wisden's 'The Scoop', Dehring said the model that was adopted in 1997 essentially triggered the demise of the game in the Caribbean.
"West Indies cricket receives nothing in this case, because the series is being played in India.
A series that could generate USD 20 million to USD 30 million in India brings West Indies cricket no revenue," Dehring said.
"To understand how this happened, you have to go back to 1997.
I was fortunate, or unfortunate, to be around when the ICC member countries voted to change the financial model that underpinned world cricket.
"Until
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