BCCI earns $3.3 billion in five-year period from 2017-18 to 2021-22, profit stands at $1.5 billion

India'scricketboardearned a surplus of around $1.5 billion in the five years to 2021-22, the country's parliament heard during a rare look into the sporting body's finances.

TheBoardof Control forCricketinIndia(BCCI) does not typically publish its finances in detail.

But it is known to be one of the world's most lucrative governing bodies thanks toIndia's diehard love of the game and periodic bidding wars over broadcast rights.

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A government minister listed recent BCCI earnings in parliament on Tuesday which revealed revenue of $919 million and expenditure of $370 million for the year to March 2022, leaving a surplus of $549 million.

It was theboard's biggest surplus out of the five years from 2017-18, with earnings of $3.3 billion and $1.8 billion in expenses for the same period.

The all-powerful BCCI is often said to call the shots in worldcricketdue to their outsized wealth compared to other nationalcricketboards.

The BCCI also stands to earn approximately $230 million per year between 2024-27 -- or 38.5 percent of the InternationalCricketCouncil's annual earnings of $600 million, according to ESPN Cricinfo.

Last year, the BCCI sold its media rights for the wildly popular Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament for a whopping $6.2 billion.

Theboardhas recently floated a tender for media rights for its international and domestic matches which is set to reap another huge windfall.

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