If the words of Colin Graves are any indication, then the Hundred may have caught the BCCI\u2019s fancy, with the England and Wales Cricket Board\u2019s current chairman\u2019s knowledge on his Indian counterparts have been \u201cregularly asking me\u201d about the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that some of the countries abroad, India in particular, are looking at their own, They have been talking to me about it for the last year on a regular basis. So around the world, it has created a lot of excitement.\u201d Graves told Sky Sports.
\nHowever, even if the BCCI eventually decides to organize a tournament modeled on the Hundred, it will not be able to do so before 2023. In a Future Tour Program cycle which badly affected by the pandemic in the due course of time, there will be no window for such an experiment for at least the coming next couple of years.<\/p>\n
The next FTP cycle will run from 2023 to 2028. The BCCI has in the past looked up at the possibilities to introduce a mini-IPL but could not do so due to looking at the people who are invested emotionally in the Indian Cricket scenario. Getting the tournament up getting it going on has been one of the top priorities for Graves, who is now eyeing on the post of ICC chairman. He called it the \u201cbiggest challenge\u201d of his five-year tenure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the biggest challenge was getting The Hundred off the ground. We had all the push back initially but I think people are now starting to see the advantages of it. I think it is the right thing to be doing and will be a valuable asset to the ECB going forward, both from a profit perspective and playing point of view. I think people, certainly in cricket, don\u2019t like change. I don\u2019t think they realized we are trying to attract a new audience \u2013 women, children, and families, which we never really had come to cricket.\u201d Graves added<\/p>\n
The ECB signed a contract of about a 1.2 billion pound broadcast deal with Sky Sports and the BBC in 2017, which also runs between 2020 and 2024 and includes live cricket returning to the BBC for the first time in 21 years so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The ECB\u2019s brainchild, the Hundred is a obligatory instrument to extend the games attain and attraction, in line with Graves. The brand new 100-ball event will start in 2021, a 12 months later than beginning deliberate, because of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":24364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}