No end to ICL dispute
Johannesburg, February 24:
An attempt to end an ongoing dispute between the unofficial Indian Cricket League (ICL) and the Indian Board ended in failure here on Monday.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced in a statement following a three-hour meeting that no agreement had been reached. No follow-up meeting is planned. An ICL application to be recognised by the ICC as an official competition will now go before the ICC Board at its meeting in April.
ICC president David Morgan said last week he called the meeting because he regarded it as a priority to get officials from the ICL and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) together. It was the second time a meeting between the rival Indian organisations ended in deadlock. The meeting was attended by Morgan, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat, BCCI honorary secretary N Srinivasan, media mogul and ICL founder Subhash Chandra and ICL business head Himanshu Mody.