According to a report in The Indian Express, the cash rich Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is owed money by the boards of all major cricketing nations, except for New Zealand. “The BCCI is due payment of nearly five crores (USD 94,228) put together. The BCCI has begun the process of sending reminders to foreign boards, asking them to report about their payment dues before the Indian board prepares its balance sheet ahead of its annual general body meeting to be held in September in Mumbai,” says the report.
“The BCCI is owed USD 2410 from CBFS (Cricketers Benefit Fund Series) Sharjah for India took part in Coca-Cola Champion Trophy in October 2000. The Zimbabwe Cricket Union is still to pay the BCCI nearly 18 lakh from India's tours in 2004 and 2006. Even the Singapore Cricket Association owes the BCCI around Rs 2 lakh,” says the report adding until 2010, the Pakistan Cricket board had not made payments worth Rs 94,40,233 in addition to which the Indian board is also waiting for payments of Rs 28,93,132 from 2011-2013 from when the two countries played two bilateral series.
According to a report in Hindustan Times, there are 11 international boards - CBFS Sharjah, Zimbabwe Cricket Union, Cricket Australia, Pakistan Cricket Board, Cricket South Africa, Bangladesh Cricket Board, England and Wales Cricket Board, Irish Cricket Union, Singapore Cricket Association, Sri Lanka Cricket Board and the West Indies Cricket Board - from whom the BCCI is to receive money.
Charges (approx Rs. 15 lakh) pertaining to the 2011/12 tour of Australia is latest in list of unsettled payments. "We send these Boards letters pertaining to the money we are to receive every year. It has been 13 years, but the Board has not really pursued it. After all, the amount is not too big for the Board," a BCCI official told HT.