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Champions League Twenty20 organisers have not paid the teams and players prize money to the tune of $6 million and held the BCCI responsible for the same.
Cricket Australia,one of the three boards running the event (besides BCCI and Cricket South Africa),said that player payments were the responsibility of the Board of Control for Cricket in India,the majority shareholder. May claimed that the Team Participation Agreement stipulating that participation fees must be paid no later than 20 days after the completion of the event.
It was unacceptable that three of the most financially affluent cricket boards in the world can seemingly sit on their hands for four months with no apparent sense of obligation to pay this prize money in a timely manner, May said. A CA spokesmen also claimed the states and the Australian Cricketers Association had been kept fully informed of the late payments from the Champions League.
It relates to issues in India with the manner the telecaster made its payment to the BCCI. It should be resolved in the next fortnight, the spokesman said. According to the report,Indian officials claimed the telecaster had taken a portion out for tax and paid it directly to the government,but the BCCI is arguing that it is a tax-free sporting organisation. A second installment from the telecaster will be used to pay the prize money,it said.
