"If Kohli is not getting paid to play in this big series....If we can't look after Kohli , the biggest star of this game, how are we running cricket at all.?" Well said Jarrod 👏

This is a banger of a video. It's easy to demonize a board or country. But the fact that there is this weird system which has been around for centuries and every cricket body is just kindof working inside those unwritten rules is pretty insightful.

Truly unique cricket insights Jarrod. Not many people can speak with authority and an outside perspective like you do. Keep up the good work

At least in England, Cricket is ran by the kind of people who think it is acceptable to fire a lot of staff to save costs, then give themselves a 2million quid bonus. I doubt that any reforms that might be considered by the same people will be about global economic justice or sustainability.

So true! I remember wondering about this growing up and not understanding the sense. Thank you for making this :)

This is an excellent video. Right up there amongst your best. Brilliant analysis!

Basically you explained the 'principal-agent problem' without mentioning it once. Cool stuff.

Thank you for the honest assessment it so rare to see now a days.

This what need of an hour ….people talking about the economics of cricket…..and don’t get me wrong …I would love Jarrod’s take on how bcci and this economy of “Indian cricket” is affecting Indian and other cricket playing nations .

Wow.. truely enlightened about some of the basic stuff today.. watching cricket for last 25 years... Bt watching and listening this really was a learning. Balanced analysis

Excellent video but I feel Pakistan's instance is special. In this instance it's more about world politics I suppose. Any popular sport can never stay isolated from politics, I wish this hadn't been the case.

Great content and a unique perspective on the situation

Really incisive and thougtful. Excellent and should be heard by all who love cricket.

Excellent review I always thought that the the sides touring England get a share of the income A bit like a div2 team drawing Man U away in the FA Cup 3rd round, in that it will cover their costs for a year or so

What a insight . Well done

Just brilliant Jarrod 👏 👌

We live in an austerity cost cutting world where systems are setup to funnel money upwards to specific people who paid to structure things this way. This video is about how cricket would be in Star Trek. Would be more realistic to plan for cricket in Blade Runner.

I think the concern with independent leagues is that when a nation like india brings 70-80% of money in cricket how can they be paid equal to others ?

What I am seeing is all the boards at each other throat. That is really bad for cricket in general.

One of the most beautiful and unique insight towards modern day cricket politics and pay. I am glad I came across your channel this Jan👍

It Failed Pakistan only, Cricket is shining

woww.... great review

You are a thinker and reformer. I like your thoughts while i am Indian and any reforms will be a losing proposition for India as it makes the most money and that money will go to every one.

Jarrod, you are a legend,you should open your statistics company

great video! that helps explain why Aus and ECB have no problem cancelling tours of smaller nations like Bangladesh and SA, but are so desperate to have other teams tour them. I understand now why Aus wanted to get India here for the 2020 series, even though they just played a series 2yrs prior. What I dont get is why countries like NZ lose money on test series, even if they are hosting? makes sense now why they only hold 2 test series most of the time, yet shove in 5 t20 series constantly.

Excellent video!!

I did not think, from the title, and from what's been going on of late, that this would be my favorite video of yours. But it is. Thanks, Jarrod.

This is so amazing.

My dream is each of the top 9 nations tour eachother once home and away every 4 years (and each of those tours has all 3 formats). Make World Test Championship 4-yearly too. Every tour would have meaning and be something special. They'd be no complaining about who has an easier schedule in the WTC either

Meh Pakistan is a victim of geo politics and shitting in their own backyard. I agree with your thesis that a stronger governing body will do well for cricket as a sport, however this Pakistan incident has nothing to do with that. Normally politics wont effect the world of sports, but this has never been true in reality, and unfortunately Pakistan is the odd man out in the political world, and thus their cricket is also paying the price for it. And the days of creating a strong central body was in the 90s before the advent of the 20/20 format. IPL has changed the money game, and none of the big boards will accept wrenching money away from them.

So important and true. I completely concur to your point about a test league, ODI league, and T20I league. The bilateral series method makes no sense. It incentivizes resource assymetry.

What we as fan of sports can do to change it for benefit of players, convenience of fans and spread of our game?

Cricket will not get popular by this way. Players will choose other sports where they get more money and there will be only few good team that will remain as a competitive teams. We are already witnessing this. Test match against Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe are just one sided. They don't get enough money to prioritise Test cricket.

Now, This is a Good Video... Good Job, Kimber

Considering this channel is all about cricket.....the line at 6:56 about the "strike" confused me for a few seconds!

Basically , what you are saying is the money making boards should give up heir revenues for those which are unable to have a revenue stream....too idealistic! And I don't think for second that any Board( or for that matter any citizen) from the Anglosphere would even think about this issue had they not come across a loss which England incurred recently.

Do I sense a sequel to Death of a gentleman?

This is a very thoughtful video essay. You talked about haphazard & inefficient structure of world cricket (organization, telecast, player remuneration, ...) but unfortunate to see that some in the comment section have the completely wrong take.

I love this idea, but in the Pakistan case surely safety is paramount? NZ being penalised for not wanting to be bombed is not a great idea in the long run. The presidential level of security has been breached before, NZ has had their hotel bombed. Not sure why all the focus is saying 'poor Pakistan', but it wasn't exactly fun for anyone involved.

In an ideal world

I don't know if the NZ incident was credible. But the ECB shouldn't have cited "mental fatigue" to refuse to tour Pakistan, after what they did during the fifth match. (Which I think was still wrong on India's part) It's a bad look, and emblematic of what the big boards have been doing to smaller countries for the longest time. I remember when in the 90s, Australia only toured India about once or twice.

When you really look at it, Pakistan has had to host home games of Football World Cup qualifiers as well as Davies Cup Home games outside of Pakistan , very recently... So it is a cricket problem, but part of this specific thing is also a Pakistan problem.. No matter how much want to ignore it..

wow jarrod amazing piece

So, newzeland and england pulled out of pak tour because they were not getting paid enough? And that security threat was fake ig. Do you want them to still play despite of intelligence report of possible security threat after what happened to sri lanka team?

Everyone needs to watch this video!!! Please forward to every single cricket fan you know. Let's make them make things right...

Cricket has been polarized

The old thumbnail was better mate

Hi jarrod can you do a video about of drop catches off specific bowlers in tests?

I love this video

Why cant we have a simple system like the touring nation gets half of what hosting nation makes. So nobody cancels the series and players are paid a percentage of what each board makes

Hey Jarrod, can u make a video on the current indian women's odi team and their old school approach in the middle overs..loved this one

It would be interesting to how much money bcci and Kohli would have lost if they would have played test 2 day later and by doing so leaving one week of IPL.

Is that an Imran Khan t-shirt I see there?

Great video, but the fact that u need presidential security to play cricket in pakistan says a lot. I guess ecb did the right thing.. Caring about mental health of their players. Pcb should've resechduled it in uae but it's now politics in pakistan

Great idea but it's really hard to implement as of now. The Big 3 Boards will never agree to let go of their power. BCCI makes far more from selling it to Star Sports then they will from a common pool. But the revenue sharing does make sense and could be implemented within the bilateral aggrements. When Bangladesh tour India, they should be getting some 20%(?) of the revenue BCCI makes.

I blame chad om prakash

There is a practical problem attached to it like some big cricketing countries generate large revenue than others so when they come under that system they feel like they aren't getting in return as same as other are getting in terms of proportion. Like in India we have more than billion people which means more tv sets more trp more advertising opportunities and the money dynamics will start to come. If we do it in that proportion small boards may find it really difficult to survive! But I think situation related with Pakistan I think it is more to do with Political situation than the contractual things.

What would be wierd if Sri Lanka Pakistan Bangladesh south Africa and the west indies go bankrupt and basically cricket dies. England India new Zealand Australia keep playing against themselves and having world cups against themselves, the fact is you can see that coming and see the other nations just playing in t20 leagues. Death of cricket is not if but when.

Really amazing video 👌loved it !

IPL rights 2022 - 2027 are going to go for upwards of 4.5 Billion $'s, add another 700 million $'s expected from the sale of 2 new IPL teams and the BCCI can pretty much do what they please. In any case, India is still a relatively poor country viz the West -so it's monies should only be used for its development and not for developed countries such as Ireland or Netherland - if the ICC tournaments get max revenue due to India - only fair India get its share Don't agree with your Commie cricket diatribe Jarrod.

Come on Jarrod.....a lot of what you're saying sounds like good common sense. Never gonna fly.......🤫

Excellent insights, Jarrod. I just want to point out that player don’t “need” presidential security in Pakistan. They are offered the level of security so that there isn’t any security related “excuse”, but that didn’t work out as planned, did it?!

love from Pakistan, thanks for raising your voice for our cricket.

It's all good.. but the geo political situations changed recently effecting the tours.. which was considered safer during scheduling few months back..

Warne comments Oz Eng Ind. NZ and others .....crickets

This is an excellent video on the long term issues that cricket has created however the elephant in the room is a problem created by Pakistan themselves by supporting wahabi radicalization and terrorism. Even if there was a league structure, no one would want to tour there under threats of terrorist attacks. Its incredible really that Pakistan is even allowed to play international cricket despite their own politicians including Imran Khan no less calling OBL a martyr, supporting, training and providing safe haven for Taliban and other terrorist orgs.

Well that's inaccurate I think. Bcci makes money off the TV rights for foreign tours that it sold to Sony Sports network a few years back.

Nice one When r we gonna get srh vs DC last knock?

Seriously good stuff!

BCCI is the richest sports board, but it is important to save the lives than money. Everything cannot be equated with money. It is important to get insurance due to unexpected virus attacks in UK.

Wow such nice idea. We give u the fans the eyeballs and u take the money wow.

It all comes down to why would the big 3 share their hard earned revenues with boards that are not making profits? Pakistan needs to look at the Bangladesh model and learn. Bangladesh board is financially secure and play all their cricket in one ground. Pakistan goes from Rawalpndi to Lahore to Karachi expanding the security threats.

Imagine poor India sponsoring growth of cricket in Netherlands. This model is flush scheme, like what ICC is trying with stuffing a tournament every year. Suddenly, player power is the buzz word, which is horryfying for every Board.

Can't blame people for avoiding near certain death and definitely certain terror attack.

Pakistan deserve what they get because of their support of Taliban. No sport is bigger than lives of millions of Afghan women

Well said, as ever. Think there’s also something in almost entitled reaction of fans, in all countries, when series are cancelled, almost saying ‘dance for me monkey’

I still think they would have abandoned the series either way. World politics changed significantly after the series was announced. Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has changed the security in the region. I don't think they will risk it for couple of millions. Especially after what happened to Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009. No one is going to take a huge risk.

Man I was looking for last day match dc vs srh, I support dc team so I wanna hear more about them. But many people skips their matches like they win they gd and just like that they don't talk much stuff about them. Even though u bring a nice topic but I would personally wants you to cover dc matches too. 🥺

I like pakistan cricket, they make the game more interesting by their unpredkctability and raw talent. But they just cannot untie the sports with politics. The fact that you need Presidential level security for the players for a game to happen just tells you it's not a safe country to go to.. On top of that they are behind the taliban, which effectively killed sports in afganistan, so like many people said, you reap what you sow.

That was a good one Jarrod

Pakistan not getting International cricket has much to do with their own fault too. It's something that escapes the bubble of Cricket and enters Global diplomacy.

I disagree with the notion of having a council as strong as you want, it has no accountability towards citizens of a country from which they'll earn their revenue, individual boards, contrary to popular belief have accountability that a global council will never have.

Well pakistan board agreed to allowing new Zealand board to cancel the tour at any time during the series. Guess what? New zealand used that right. what's the fuss ?

:(

Selling all of international cricket as one big tv rights pacakge isn't a great idea when you consider the difference in economies. For someone in Aus or Eng 40-50$ a month for cricket isn't a big deal but that is an absurd amount for an Indian. For comparison I pay around 15$ for an ENTIRE YEAR disney+Hotstar subscription that Includes full Indian home season plus Premiere League and other entertainment. Same with every player getting around same money. There is absurd amount of difference in living cost in Subcontinent and Aus Eng. A normal salary in Aus is crazy money in India.

Do a collab with the grade cricketer......they have a lot of social capital and are also aussie

another one of those let's blame india for other people's failure bravo👏

"Pakistan is the biggest victim" is music to the ears of all Pakistanis 😄

Wow!Never knew cricket economy is that terrible..🙁

International team sport in all sports; is just an active crime scene. Nobody gets paid and people cry when players choose to do things that actually pay them OR you know act like professionals. Gotta feel for the Pakistan players man; they keep touring, get no share in the revenue, their board upends the domestic structure every other year and now after ages whiteys were gonna come and play WITH fans and this happens. But then England has been flipping the bird to all and sundry, personally think we in India got very lucky in 2008, when they did come back to finish the series. On a side note; England and Australia upping sticks and not touring SA was a real tragedy too.

*Reap what you sow, Pakistan has basically KILLED Women sports in Afghanistan by backing the Taliban.* 👍

Let's do some Kerry Packer shit again with Jarrod's ideas.

A good plan. But idealistic 😀 Personally, I wouldn't blame any team from opting out of a Pakistan or Afghanistan tour.

also pakistan openly supported taliban so they can play with them

Virat kohli do make money out of England tour. It's not as immediate or simple as you expect bit its there. It's like a company making an investment with guaranteed profitable long term income.

U missed one thing That is pkmkb

England pulling out is kinda sus ngl.

Absolutely true 🥲

Samaraweera what say you? Some nations give you handshakes, some a bullet through the knee, in between there are fair arguments though.

'Too much cricket' ... Jarrod, you'll just have to forgive us normal people for laughing in derision. Fine, let 'em get a Real Job - I'm sure there's plenty of normal folk waiting in the wings who'd fill their spots. 99% of competitive cricketers have a shit day job, and then show up to the their games on the weekend. The trouble is, for people within the professional ecosystem, that they've entirely lost touch with their audience - they're becoming greedy, entitled, and pretentious. They cry 'burnout', and then take comfy sabbaticals for seasons at a time - so hard done by! The 'too much cricket' and 'boo-hoo COVID sucks' bit just doesn't really wash with the unwashed masses who ultimately pay their salaries. The 'I'm a bit worried about getting fucking suicide-bombs by deranged lunatics' bit should probably elicit a bit more sympathy from people like you. The truth is that in the old days people truly did play it for the love of country, and in many ways that's why we watch it too - by losing sight of that and becoming mercenary, the very core of cricket itself is being undermined. In search of the almighty paycheck they hazard the withering and erosion of that paycheck. Unfortunately there are things greater than the silly game of cricket. If pro cricket dies I don't even know if I'd care that much, TBH - I played the game and watched it before that, and I doubt that would ever change for me.