DanWalker's query was related to ICC (international stage) vs IPL revenue.
I wanted to point out that ICC earn less amount of money due to this main reason (based on ICC tournaments like T-20 WC, WC).
- Only BIG 3 fixtures generate enough money in ICC tourney, mainly India.
- Rest of the fixtures in the ICC Tourney are not profitable, barring few.
- IPL revenue only depends on the local market, which is already big.
Thanks for clarification. You are right in saying that ICC revenue is far less then what IPL is generating. ICC these days is not much interested in increasing its revenue by adding more countries to cricket pool. ICC can't earn huge unless he has atleast 30 to 40 countries as regular test teams.
Simply handing over Test status to countries is not solution. Test format is a dead cow except for few countries. Limited overs cricket, especially T-20 is the future. IMHO They should make qualification process easy and go ahead with 16-20 countries T-20WC tournament.
At start there is a possibility that it won't be profitable because you have to subsidise new participants. Also it could turn into financial disaster (like 2007), plus bit dull tournament at times due to mis-matched fixtures but in a longer run it could solve many problems because cricketing market would mature in those new countries, given ICC playing its cards right (like involving locals, publicity etc) but for this to happen ICC have to bite the bullet.