(This story originally appeared in on Sep 04, 2016)

MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board has been peeved with the International Cricket Council ( ICC ), especially its independent chairman and former BCCI chief Shashank Manohar, for plenty of reasons these last few months.On Saturday, the relations between cricket's world body and its richest member further soured after news came in that the game's world governing body had allotted a huge budget to the England and Wales Cricket Board ( ECB ) for the 2017 Champions Trophy , more than double of what it had allotted to the BCCI to host the World T20 early this year.This came after media reports said ICC had kept aside a budget of $135m for the Champions Trophy in England next year as against a mere $45m that was allotted to India in March/April this year."We have certain concerns and we have sent queries to the ICC because the money that will be spent on the event will go from everyone's pockets. I'm sure the ICC will understand this. As a cricketing nation, India would like to play its role as a global leader," BCCI president Anurag Thakur told TOI.A section within ICC denied this budget hike and insisted that the draft of the financials worked out for the Champions Trophy is less than $60m but BCCI sources maintained that the financials worked out by the ICC are hitting the roof.Responding to the figures mentioned above, the ICC said in a statement: "Like all ICC events, the event host produces a draft budget based on the delivery of a high quality event in that market. This budget is then circulated to the Members before being formally discussed and approved by the ICC Board during the ICC Annual Conference."For the record, the 2016 World T20 in India involved more teams, venues and logistics than the 2017 Champions Trophy is likely to be burdened with. Sources say there is a huge difference in the per match cost comparisons between what India was allotted for World T20 and what England has been allotted now.This reported financial imbalance is only one of the many issues that has got the Indian board upset. In fact, the BCCI's gripe right now is that the independent ICC chairman - who they say used the BCCI's good office to occupy his present position and left the board at its most crucial hour in the backdrop of the Supreme Court hearings on Lodha report - is not in favour of BCCI's own interests anymore.For starters, the BCCI does not have a representation in the ICC's all-important Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee, which is responsible for clearing all major budgets."The BCCI is responsible for 80% of ICC's revenue and it does not get a representation in these committees. It clearly looks like the ICC is trying to cut the hand that is feeding them," a top BCCI official said.When Manohar was the BCCI president, he was on this committee but following his switch to the ICC, the BCCI is yet to find any presence there. Here's where matters are taking a turn for the worse because the board is convinced that Manohar isn't acting in its interest anymore.For quite some time now, it's been clear that the BCCI and Manohar have been on a warpath. Sources say they're baffled that the Nagpur-based administrator came back to the BCCI on the agenda that he wanted to "repair the image of the board" but is now working against its interests.The board has anyways held it against Manohar for causing them massive financial losses post the Big-Three rollback.The Champions Trophy budget will come up for a formal discussion when the ICC meets in October. However, the BCCI is looking to informally take up the issue with the ICC in the two-day chief executives meeting starting Tuesday. So far, neither the ICC nor the BCCI has officially declared the figures that are being so hotly debated.