PCB Chair Najam Sethi Claims Pakistan Will Earn $450M From Next Eight-Year Cycle

Pakistan Cricket Board Chair Najam Sethi on Monday claimed that his country will earn $450M "from the next eight-year cycle, mainly from four series with arch-rivals India," according to the AFP. India and Pakistan signed an agreement to play six series -- "four of which Pakistan will host in the next eight years" -- on the sidelines of an Int'l Cricket Council annual conference in Melbourne last week. The windfall for Pakistan was "made possible after they conditionally agreed to approve an ICC revamp that gives major powers" to cricket's "Big Three" of India, Australia and England. Sethi: "We will get revenues on fourth number, and I can say with confidence that in the next eight year cycle we will get $150 million dollars from the ICC." That $150M would bring the "total takings" to $450M. This compares to Pakistan receiving $10M from the ICC per year in the last seven-year cycle (AFP, 6/30).