Cricket Capital

The Business of Cricket and Sports

Cricket Capital is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 41 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Disappointing and Disrespectful - Cricket Scotland and Netherlands Call Out the ICC

  Sep 7, 202610 min

  Cricket Scotland and Cricket Netherlands have gone on record describing the ICC's handling of the 2027 ODI World Cup format changes as disappointing, disrespectful, and a threat to the credibility of international cricket. These are not outside critics. These are ICC members. Their joint statement centres on two core complaints: the format changes were announced with less than 18 months to go before the tournament, and the affected members were not properly consulted before the decision was made. For associate nations that had spent years planning, budgeting, and developing players around an already-agreed qualification structure, that is not a minor procedural grievance. The consultation question carries the most significant governance implications. Scotland and the Netherlands are not asking for a veto. They are asking to be heard before decisions that directly affect them are finalised. After the changes were announced, both boards met with the ICC twice, requested written clarification, and sought improvements to future decision-making. More than two weeks after their second meeting, there had been no response. That silence is what produced the words "disappointing and disrespectful" in a public statement directed at their own governing body. Beyond their own situation, Scotland and the Netherlands raise a harder question about cricket's global ambitions. Ireland beating England in 2011, the Netherlands beating South Africa in 2022, the USA beating Pakistan in 2024: those results happened because smaller nations were given the stage. Reducing meaningful World Cup opportunities for emerging nations runs directly against the conditions that produce those moments. The ICC has the authority to change formats. What Scotland and the Netherlands are asking is whether that authority is being exercised in a way that holds up to scrutiny. So far, the answer has been silence. Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@cri9259/post/disappointing-and-disrespectful---cricket-scotland-and-netherlands-call-out-the-icc

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  Small Cricket Markets Have a Better Option

  Sep 6, 20263 min

  The European T20 Premier League is a new cricket competition bringing together teams from Ireland, Scotland, and the Netherlands, representing cities like Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. Each of those three countries is a modest cricket market on its own, too small to attract serious broadcaster interest or sustainable sponsorship. Combined, they create a commercial footprint that is meaningfully larger than the sum of its parts, more cities, more matches, more supporters, and pooled rights that give the league a real shot at viability. The deeper issue the ETPL addresses is structural dependency. Smaller cricket nations have long relied on getting fixtures against India, England, and Australia because those matches generate the bulk of their revenue. The problem is that the big three have their own scheduling priorities, and smaller nations rarely make the top of that list. Building your own commercial platform, rather than lobbying for a spot on someone else's tour calendar, is a direct answer to that problem. Whether the ETPL survives beyond its novelty is still an open question. Consistent audiences, broadcast deals, and sponsors across multiple seasons are a harder challenge than a successful launch. But if it does grow, the lesson for other associate nations is straightforward: find two or three countries in a similar position and build something together that none of you could build alone. The dependency on full members is not a fixed condition. Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@cri9259/post/small-cricket-markets-have-a-better-option

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  Sep 1, 20261 min

  Hello everyone. Now, I’ve worked in international cricket for over two decades, and I learned something very quickly. Some of the most important shots in cricket are never played with a bat. And some of the most vicious bouncers are not bowled with a ball. They happen in committee meetings and in boardrooms. I’m Faisal Hasnain, and that side of the game has been a large part of my professional life. And that’s also why I created Cricket Capital a YouTube channel where I talk about the business behind the game: how cricket is governed, how the money works, and how decisions made away from the field can ultimately shape what happens on it. Think of it as looking at cricket from the other side of the boundary. And I hope to see you there — at Cricket Capital. Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@cri9259/post/cricket-capital-

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  ICC Cricket World Cup format change - Reaction of the World Cricketers Association

  Aug 27, 20267 min

  When the ICC announced changes to the ODI Cricket World Cup 2027 format, the World Cricketers Association pushed back on four specific grounds: transparency, consultation, the sporting logic of the new structure, and the human cost of mid-cycle format changes. The WCA concedes the ICC's authority to shape its global events, but argues that authority and accountability are separate questions, and that cricket's governance is failing on the second count. Two of the starkest concerns are worth sitting with. Under the revised format, qualifying nations will play only two matches before heading home. For smaller cricket boards, a World Cup slot is an investment case and a development milestone, and two matches against top-ten opposition does not deliver the commercial or developmental return those boards are counting on. On consultation, the WCA's position is precise: players do not need a veto, but those whose careers are shaped by tournament structures deserve to be heard before decisions are locked in, not after. That standard is already common across international sport. Tom Moffat, the WCA's chief executive, frames the stakes as a governance question that extends well beyond 2027. When stakeholders cannot trust that future commitments will hold, or that they will be consulted before the next significant change, the damage is not limited to one tournament cycle. The difference between being overruled and being ignored is what builds or erodes long-term confidence in any governing body, and right now cricket has some explaining to do. Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@cri9259/post/icc-cricket-world-cup-format-change---reaction-of-the-world-cricketers-association-

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  The Law Running Professional Sport

  Aug 26, 202612 min

  Sports law is not a single rulebook handed down by one governing body. It is contract law, employment law, intellectual property, anti-doping, and criminal law applied to the specific structures of international federations, franchise leagues, and broadcast ecosystems. Cricket illustrates why this matters: the ICC, national boards like the ECB, franchise leagues like the IPL, broadcasters, sponsors, and players all operate under different and sometimes competing legal interests, and without a functioning legal framework, the whole structure falls apart. The Court of Arbitration for Sport sits at the top of that framework as the final appeals body for disputes across virtually every sport and jurisdiction. Before CAS became the default forum, disputes went to ordinary civil courts, with expensive and public results. The 1996 defamation case brought by Ian Botham and Alan Lamb against Imran Khan ran for two weeks in an English court, drew witnesses including Mike Atherton and Geoffrey Boycott, and demonstrated both that cricketers had enforceable legal rights and that civil litigation was a poor vehicle for sporting disputes. Anti-doping is now one of the most heavily litigated areas in the field, with the Lance Armstrong case, the Russian state-sponsored doping scandal, and the Sun Yang swimming case all producing legal precedents that shape global standards. Sports law has matured into a recognized professional discipline. Elite firms including Bird & Bird, CMS, Dentons, and Morgan Sports Law run dedicated practices covering CAS litigation, governance, and major commercial deals. The ICC itself employs around five full-time qualified sports lawyers working across contracts, integrity, events, and disputes. For anyone with a serious interest in both law and sport, it is one of the few fields where those two worlds overlap with genuine depth and genuine stakes. Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@cri9259/post/the-law-running-professional-sport

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