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[caption id="attachment_43012" align="aligncenter" width="580"] BCCI loses both revenue and governance vote. Image Source: twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) faced a huge blow at the ICC meeting in Dubai on Wednesday. In the global body’s Board Meeting the majority voted for a change in governance and revenue structures. On the first day of the meeting BCCI’s opposition to revamped governance was rejected by 1-9 margin while the revenue model was struck down by 2-8. The only country that voted alongside BCCI was their neighboring country Sri Lanka. “Yes, the votings are over. It was 8-2 in favour of revamped revenue model and 9-1 in favour of constitutional changes,” a senior BCCI functionary present in Dubai told PTI today. “The BCCI has voted against both as we had, in principle, maintained that all these changes are completely unacceptable for us. At this point, we can only say that all options are open for us. We would have to go back to our SGM and apprise the members of the situation,” he added. It was learnt that since BCCI outrightly rejected the additional USD 100 million pay-out in revenue, it was once again given the original option of USD 290 million which is a USD 280 million cut from the USD 570 million India had been getting till last year. BCCI secretary Amitabh Choudhury, who is also known as a loyalist to the former BCCI President N Srinivasan, is representing the Indian cricket board in its meetings with the ICC this week in Dubai. The ICC wants to put a new constitution in place for that to happen, it will need BCCI’s nod to the new financial model which is important to the governance changes which have already been agreed upon. The BCCI, on its part, wants to defer these changes at least till the end of June 2017.