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CRICKET ROADSHOWS

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Cricket's shifting power base comes under the microscope on Saturday as the Cricket Roadshow examines who now pulls the strings on the international stage.

Until recently England and Australia had been viewed as the traditional power brokers in the world game but all that is now changing, largely because of the ever-increasing proliferation of one-day cricket being played throughout the sub-continent.

Test cricket might still be the dominant international format on these shores but in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka there's no doubt the one-day game is king, bringing in huge domestic revenue through a series of massive television deals.

And of that happy triumvirate India stands head and shoulders above the others with its home population of more than a billion in a country besotted by the instant gratification of one-day cricket.

As a result its governing body, the BCCI, continues to flex its muscles in a self-promotional push for what it sees as rightful recognition of its new international standing. In the BCCI's view the country which brings in the most money should be accorded a status reflecting that fact.

Nowhere has that been better illustrated than when the Indian board, led by the combative figure of Jagmohan Dalmiya, stood firm during the Virender Sehwag incident in South Africa last year.

Further confrontation followed during England's subsequent Indian tour when Dalmiya insisted on a 6th ODI despite the schedule having been agreed and ticked off by both countries just months previously.

Entertainingly, England won the extra game to square the series, but the bottom line is, as in any business, that money talks. Just how loudly is now the question?

Elsewhere on the programme Adam Darke chats to England's 11th and newest father and son combination, Jeff and Simon Jones, there's a comprehensive review of the Bunbury festival and all the usual news and features items that make up the weekly Roadshow.

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