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India captain MS Dhoni has said one of the challenges facing the side in England for the Champions Trophy will be adjusting to the new ODI rules

ESPNcricinfo staff28-May-2013India captain MS Dhoni has said one of the challenges facing the side in England during the Champions Trophy will be adjusting to the new ODI rules. He said the team had enough time to acclimatise, with two warm-up games scheduled before the opening match against South Africa on June 6.Since the new rules were implemented in January, India have played ODIs at home but this will be their first experience of them in foreign conditions, where the seamers will have a bigger role. Captains have said the rules haven’t been fair on the bowlers, especially the spinners, with not more than four fielders allowed outside the 30-yard circle at any stage of the innings. Bowlers can bowl two bouncers an over and the Powerplays will have to be completed by the 40th over.”There are a few challenges like the new ODI rules and we will be playing outside the subcontinent for the first time under the new rules,” Dhoni said in Mumbai ahead of the team’s departure for England. “We will have to adjust to the new rule of five fielders being inside (the circle), the length they need to bowl, how quickly they adapt to the wicket, which areas to bowl.”The good thing is we have two practice matches leading up to the tournament. We also have enough time before the first game, so there is enough time to adjust.”In the past, India have fared poorly in tournaments staged immediately after the IPL. The team failed to make the semi-finals in the 2009 and 2010 World T20 tournaments, but Dhoni said the players’ form during the IPL was encouraging.”With the kind of fitness level that is going around right now, each and every member is looking fit,” Dhoni said. “All of them have played good cricket in the IPL or before the IPL. So most of them are in very good touch. As far as the fitness is concerned we have not received any official reports about any player being unfit, so that is a good sign.”Though the seamers are expected to play a major role, the squad has three spinners in R Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Ravindra Jadeja. India’s coach Duncan Fletcher felt the spinners will have an important role to play at certain venues.”As MS mentioned earlier it is generally going to be seamer-friendly, you never know, like Cardiff for example, it is known there to be a turning wicket, very slow and not very different to what you might get in India,” Fletcher said. “You’ve got to be prepared to play two spinners. If one is injured, there is a back-up. We have a balanced side.”India will be without their regular opening pair of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, both dropped on form. Dhoni was confident that the new pair of Shikhar Dhawan and M Vijay would carry forward their form from the Test series against Australia.”Our two openers had done well at the Test level recently,” Dhoni said. “I know it is a different challenge in the ODIs, you have to accelerate but at the same time it is important that we have a good start from which we can capitalise on, and as Duncan rightly said this is an opportunity for the youngsters. Shikhar and Vijay have been very consistent.”Dhoni was reminded of India’s last ODI series in England, in 2011, where the side lost the five-match series 3-0 after losing all four Tests. Dhoni said the team had fared better than the results suggested.”Rain was a big factor, we lost all the tosses. It didn’t even reach the stage where it could have decided by Duckworth/Lewis,” Dhoni said. “The spinners had to literally deal with the wet ball and it was not possible for them to use their skills. The performance of the ODI squad was good, if you don’t see just the results.”

N Srinivasan was elected the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association for the 12th time in a row

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Jun-2013N Srinivasan has been elected the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association for the 12th time in a row.During the 83rd annual general meeting and elections of the state association, Srinivasan was elected unopposed, while Kasi Viswanathan was elected the secretary for seventh year on the trot.All the office bearers and members of the executive committee were unanimously elected for the year 2013-14.Srinivasan, the BCCI president, has temporarily stepped aside from his position and Jagmohan Dalmiya is seeing the board’s day-to-day functioning. Srinivasan took the decision after his son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings official Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested for allegedly betting in IPL.

Canada’s bowlers, spearheaded by pacer Jeremy Gordon, gave the hosts an early advantage against UAE in the four-day Intercontinental Cup match in King City

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Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsCanada’s bowlers, spearheaded by pacer Jeremy Gordon, gave the hosts an early advantage against UAE in the four-day Intercontinental Cup match in King City.After rain had completely washed out play on the opening day, the players had to wait for much of day two for the ground to be fit enough to play on. Eventually it began, and Canada, opting to field, got an early breakthrough as UAE opener Haroon Ifthikar edged a delivery from Gordon back to the keeper Hamza Tariq. Paceman Henry Osinde dismissed the other opener Arshad Ali for two in the ninth over to leave the visitors struggling at 11 for 2.However, Swapnil Patil kept the innings afloat. Patil struck five fours during his innings of 43, and added 37 for the third wicket with left-hand batsman Khurram Khan.But Canada struck again later on, as Gordon removed Khurram for 21, and left-arm spinner Parth Desai got the wicket of Shaiman Anwar in the 24th over, to leave UAE precariously placed at 73 for 4 at the end of day two.

Sri Lanka umpire Selliah Ponnadurai, who officiated in the country’s maiden Test victory over India in 1985, died at the age of 78 on Thursday.

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Aug-2013Sri Lanka umpire Selliah Ponnadurai, who officiated in the country’s maiden Test victory, over India in 1985, died at the age of 78 on Thursday.Ponnadurai stood with PW Vidanagamage in the second Test at the P Sara Oval which Sri Lanka went on to win by 149 runs and register their maiden Test win.Born in Jafna, Ponnadurai was educated at St John’s College and represented them in cricket as a right-hand bat and right-arm medium-pace bowler.Ponnadurai officiated in three of Sri Lanka’s Tests (2 against India and 1 against Pakistan) between 1983 and 1993 and also in eight One-Day Internationals during the same period.He worked as an assessor in the Inland Revenue Department before leading a quiet retired life.

Nottinghamshire claimed their first piece of one-day silverware in more than two decades with a dominant 87-run victory at Lord’s

Alan Gardner at Lord's21-Sep-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsSamit Patel was the pick of the Nottinghamshire bowlers as Glamorgan crumbled•Getty ImagesNottinghamshire claimed their first piece of one-day silverware in more than two decades with a dominant 87-run victory at Lord’s. Chris Read top-scored with a run-a-ball half-century, only his second fifty in all cricket this season, after Glamorgan chose to bowl and their total proved too challenging for the Welsh county, who succumbed for 157 as Samit Patel, Ajmal Shahzad and Stuart Broad shared nine wickets.Nottinghamshire had been the outstanding team in this, the final YB40 competition before the return of 50-over cricket next season. Their XI featured nine internationals and the gulf in class told, condemning Glamorgan to a third defeat in three Lord’s finals.Simon Jones, in possibly his final appearance for Glamorgan, and Andrew Salter, the 20-year-old offspinner, had prevented the favourites from bullying them with two wickets apiece but Read and the lower order cranked up the run rate, as 99 came from the last ten overs. That proved the difference, as Glamorgan, 144 for 5 at the 30-over mark, lost their last five wickets for 13 runs in the batting Powerplay. Broad, whose mistimed attempt at a catch had earlier left his England team-mate Graeme Swann scowling, claimed the final three wickets in a single over.Swann, who along with Broad had been parachuted into the team that beat Somerset in the semi-final, at least had the consolation of biffing a merry 29 with the bat but it was Patel and Shahzad, England internationals themselves, who caught the eye in ripping the heart of out Glamorgan.Patel, recently on record expressing his chagrin at being left out of England’s limited-overs squads, reinforced his credentials with the crucial wickets of Chris Cooke and Jim Allenby, Glamorgan’s leading run-scorers in the competition, both bowled by deliveries that turned. He took 3 for 4 in nine deliveries, derailing the run chase from a useful position of 108 for 2 in the 19th. Read, whose glovework was once the stuff of England selectors’ dreams, showed his captaincy nous too, bringing up deep midwicket to encourage Murray Goodwin to sweep and helping Patel to his third wicket.Broad took the new ball on his 40-over debut for Nottinghamshire (his last domestic one-day game was in 2008) but it was the uncapped left-armer Harry Gurney who made the breakthrough, having Glamorgan captain Mark Wallace caught at slip.Gurney might have taken wickets with his first three deliveries, as Cooke edged short of the slips and was then beaten by a delivery angled across him. Broad, too, could have dismissed Cooke with an lbw appeal adjudged to be fractionally too high but he also took some tap as Gareth Rees rattled a couple of pulls to the boundary. Rees became the first wicket for Shahzad, who might been squeezed out of the team by Broad and Swann’s inclusion had Jake Ball not suffered a back injury but finished as Nottinghamshire’s leading YB40 wicket-taker.Patel the unexpected matchwinner

Samit Patel admitted he had surprised himself with his key bowling display at Lord’s after expecting Graeme Swann, making a rare club appearance, to be the main spinner.

“I wasn’t expecting to bowl that much,” he said. “I was shocked, but just happy that we won the game. I try to spin it as much as I can, I’m not renowned for spinning it that much but to get wickets like it very pleasing. It was a big game, I pride myself on being a big match player.”

Mark Wallace, the Glamorgan captain, acknowledged the significance of Patel’s role. “I think a lot of people would have been looking to Graeme Swann to be the match-winner when it came to spin, but we played him very well.

“Samit got key batsmen who were set with very good pieces of bowling. They weren’t loose shots or anything like that; they were genuinely got out and I think that was probably a bit of a turning point.”

Read went to his half-century with a driven six over long-on and batted with an energy befitting the occasion, lifting the tempo in an attempt to lead his team to a first one-day trophy since the 1991 Sunday League. His 99-run partnership with David Hussey revived Nottinghamshire from 90 for 4, overcoming a diligent Glamorgan display in the field.Lord’s finals are supposed to come with a last blazing of summer sun but, with one more round of the Championship still to play, perhaps someone had got their orders mixed up. After a sedate start under leaden skies, Michael Lumb signalled Nottinghamshire’s intentions as the designated ‘bigger boys’ in this playground scrap by climbing into Allenby in the final Powerplay over. A muscle through midwicket was followed by a thick-edged slash to third man, then a full-blooded mow over wide long-on, as 14 runs came from three deliveries and beat out an ominous tattoo for Glamorgan.Jones, one of England’s most fragile, fleeting talents but as Welsh as Dylan Thomas, was introduced from the Pavilion End and he raged against the dying of the light in tandem with Salter.Salter, who will have to put up with plenty of Robert Croft comparisons if continues on his current trajectory, became the third Glamorgan player to take a wicket with his first delivery in Championship cricket last month and he struck second ball here, an offbreak gripping a little to find Lumb’s leading edge. The opening stand had been worth 52 but, with light drizzle falling and cries of “Oh Glammy, Glammy!” beginning to echo round the ground, the mood changed.These teams were unfamiliar participants in Lord’s finals – Glamorgan’s most recent was in 2000, Nottinghamshire’s 11 years further back – and their supporters also took a while to adapt to the rarefied surroundings. There was no mistaking the roar that accompanied Jones’ dismissal of Alex Hales, however, caught spooning a catch to deep cover in his first-ever appearance at Lord’s.The ground was only half full, so the window panes of St John’s Wood residents were not under threat from Welsh arias, but the decibel level rose as Patel picked out mid-off with a lazy drive and Jones then removed James Taylor with a delivery that seamed and bounced to kiss the edge. Jones, who will play only T20 cricket from now on, had spoken beforehand of the passion Glamorgan play with and the evidence was there in his emotional celebration.Salter, by now bowling with a slip, had never before taken three wickets in a List A innings and he was denied his best figures when Rees dropped Hussey, a low chance at mid-off. From that point on, Glamorgan’s big day out only got worse.

Former England bowler Simon Jones admits Glamorgan will be underdogs in the YB40 final but says the team will be up for the challenge against favourites Notts

Alan Gardner19-Sep-2013When it comes to sport, the Welsh tend to sing whether they are winning or not. Glamorgan supporters have not had too much to fill their lungs about in recent times but, on Saturday, they will make their first trip to Lord’s for a domestic one-day final in more than a decade. The home of cricket may need soundproofing.Nottinghamshire are favourites to win the Yorkshire Bank 40, having cruised through the group stage and thrashed perennial nearly men Somerset in their semi-final, but Glamorgan are quite happy to be overlooked by the . In truth, this is unfamiliar territory for both sides – it will be the third Lord’s final appearance in Glamorgan’s history and only Nottinghamshire’s fifth, their most recent coming in 1989 – but while Notts have a surfeit of England internationals to call upon, their opponents are largely unsung outside of Cardiff.There will surely be an ode or two composed to Michael Hogan – the tournament’s leading wicket-taker – or Jim Allenby if Glamorgan manage an upset. The starting XI may be a little light on homegrown players (Allenby and Hogan are Australian) but Simon Jones will always be a household name in Wales. It is eight years since he last played for England, eight years since he became an Ashes winner, yet there are still those who whisper reverentially about his piston right shoulder and powers of reverse swing.Jones could be about to pull on a Glamorgan shirt for the final time – he announced his retirement from first-class and List A cricket last week, though hopes to maintain the club as part of a T20 portfolio – and he says they are happy to accept the underdog tag. “That’s just the way it is but we relish that, we love a challenge and hopefully we’ll surprise a few people,” he said.”It’s a bit of a Welsh trait, isn’t it – we’re tigers, as a nation. Welsh sport is really looking up, with the rugby, with the football and now we’re in a Lord’s final. We’re obviously the only Welsh team in the County Championship and it’s something we’re very proud of, once you put on a Glamorgan shirt it’s something that you treasure. We play cricket with passion and I think that’s a big key for us.”The focus at Glamorgan over the last few years has been on making their ground a credible international venue but while the faithful require their churches, it is silver rather than glass and steel that they worship. Beaten finalists in the Benson & Hedges Cup in 2000, Glamorgan won the National League in 2002 and 2004 before a lean spell, pock-marked by upheaval on and off the pitch. The YB40 campaign, building on some encouraging form in the Friends Life t20, hints at the green (and yellow) shoots of making the county competitive again.”It’s been a tough time,” Jones said. “We had a lot of success in the early 2000s, the last time we won a major cup was in 2004, so it’s been a long time coming. We’ve had to rebuild, we lost a lot of senior players in the early 2000s – Matt Maynard, Steve James, Adrian Dale, Steve Watkin, Robert Croft, Tony Cottey. These guys are huge for Glamorgan, so we were in the process of rebuilding and it is flourishing now. It has taken that time to find a settled team and have the squad of players that play the brand of cricket that we like playing.”A recognition that a successful Glamorgan, incorporating local talent, was needed to maintain public interest in the sport in Wales has driven the current strategy, which involves balancing experienced signings like Allenby, Hogan and Murray Goodwin with promising young players such as Ben Wright, Mike Reed and Andrew Salter. Jones, who counts himself among the “old buggers”, believes that the team in one-day cricket has just “clicked”, but they won’t be getting ahead of themselves, despite an impressive semi-final victory over the holders, Hampshire.”We’ve got the blend of youth and experience right in the team. We’re not going to get giddy and go to Lord’s with our heads swelling because that’s the wrong way to approach a final. We’re going to go in there level-headed, prepare like we have and see where that takes us. We’ve got a lot of self-belief but we have the utmost respect for Nottinghamshire.”Should he make the starting XI as expected, this will be Jones first Lord’s final appearance. To achieve that with Glamorgan, the county that made him and where he returned two years ago after spells with Worcestershire and Hampshire, is a “special, special feeling”. He says of the current team: “We’re a great bunch of lads, we’ve worked hard for each other all year and it’s nice to get a bit of credibility back. Hopefully we can go there and express ourselves and keep on playing the way we have.”Would victory be a new career high? Jones isn’t ruling it out. “The Ashes is history, but the feeling I think I’d have if we can win will be up there with the Ashes, maybe bigger. Because when you play with England you’ve got the cream of the crop from around the county circuit and are expected to win. Glamorgan have put out a Welsh team who fight hard and work hard and, yes, we have a lot of talent but people have always doubted us and I think that’s the key for us. We’ve proved a lot of people wrong and that’s why I’m so happy.”Simon Jones was speaking ahead of the Yorkshire Bank 40 final at Lord’s on Saturday, September 21. Tickets are available from tickets.lords.org

Sri Lanka A took the Twenty20 series against Kenya 5-1 as they chased down Kenya’s 131 for 6 with five wickets in hand

Andrew Fidel Fernando02-Nov-20136th T20
ScorecardUpul Tharanga hit 48 and 52 on the final day of matches against Kenya•AFPSri Lanka A took a 5-1 lead in the Twenty20 series against Kenya, on the final day in Colombo, as they chased down Kenya’s 131 for 6 with five wickets in hand and four balls remaining. Upul Tharanga provided the platform for the chase with a 45-ball 48, before the middle order completed the victory, despite losing quick wickets.Irfan Karim had set up Kenya’s total with an unbeaten 53 off 55 balls, after the top three had failed. Karim and captain Collins Obuya put on a 52-run stand after coming together at 12 for 3. Rakep Patel’s 28 from 12 balls pushed the total above 130, as opening seam bowlers Ishan Jayaratne and Lahiru Jayaratne took two wickets apiece.Tharanga and Mahela Udawatte put on 74 for the first wicket, and though Hiren Varaiya caused a setback by taking 3 for 15 with his left-arm spin, an unbeaten 12-ball 20 by Kithuruwan Vithanage sealed the match for Sri Lanka A.7th T20 – Match abandoned
ScorecardSri Lanka A had hit 129 for 4 in 16.4 overs when rain forced the abandonment of the second match, in Colombo. Upul Tharanga followed up his 48 in the first match with 52 from 42 balls, striking up a 79-run third-wicket partnership with Niroshan Dickwella, who hit 42 from 34.Seam bowler Elijah Otieno took two wickets, and the teams did not return, after rain interrupted play, just as Sri Lanka A’s fourth wicket fell.

Real-time Snicko will be used as a virtual insurance policy for the fallibility of HotSpot as Australia and England submit themselves to experimentation with the latest edition of the DRS during the Ashes series

Daniel Brettig in Brisbane20-Nov-2013Real-time Snicko will be used as a virtual insurance policy for the fallibility of Hot Spot as Australia and England submit themselves to experimentation with the latest edition of the DRS during the Ashes series.The new technology, which provides split screen video synced with stump microphone audio to provide evidence for edges, is only to be used in the event of Hot Spot not revealing a nick, as happened on numerous occasions during the earlier series in England. Several players, including the Australian captain Michael Clarke, have stated their belief that Hot Spot should not be used after its inventor Warren Brennan conceded it would not pick up all edges.However the ICC, Cricket Australia and the ECB have agreed to the use of Real-time Snicko to increase the circumstantial evidence around the upholding or reversal of decisions. “If the umpire gives it out [and it is reviewed], the third umpire will look at the spin vision replay to start with, then he’ll go to Hot Spot,” Geoff Allardice, the ICC’s head of cricket operations, said in Brisbane. “If there’s a mark on Hot Spot he’ll go straight to out. That’s his conclusive evidence straight away. The only time Snicko will be used is if there’s no mark on Hot Spot.”The consistent message has been that it takes something serious to overturn an on-field decision. You need to walk in to your [fellow umpire] at the end of the day, show him the pictures and say that’s why I overturned your decision, and that’s probably the toughest audience of all. If you’re not sure you stay with the on-field decision.”The Ashes will thus be a testing ground for the use of the technology, with approval of wider use in other series to follow provided its effectiveness is proven. Allardice said a key reason for the approval of Real-time Snicko to be used after years of its parent version’s absence from the list of approved technology was that the new system is almost entirely automated, needing only to be calibrated each morning.”We wouldn’t have done it without the support of both boards,” Allardice said. “It is part of the evaluation of getting the Snicko on the approved list of technologies, but we’ve been watching the development of the product for the last 12 months, the fact is it is very different in the way it functions to the previous version of Snicko and it’s more automated and it’s faster, so the images should be available within seconds rather than minutes.”We need to look at it in a match situation somewhere, and we’ve got two boards who are very keen and the ICC to improve the DRS, and the area we need to find what works better is with edges. We feel this is something that can certainly help the umpires – to get a tool to assist them with the timing of the sound is an advantage.”There’s no manual judgments the operator has to make on a ball-by-ball basis. That’s set at the start of the day and maintained. Can we guarantee it’s going to be absolutely perfect? Probably not, there is always a human operating the system, as with all the technology we’re using, but we’re minimising things going wrong.”Allardice foreshadowed further changes to the DRS in future, including the broadcast of the umpires’ deliberations over video evidence to the public, as is the case in rugby league and union. “It’s certainly something that’s on the cards,” he said. “We won’t be doing it this series, but I think one of the medium term goals is to try to get the guys communicating in a more disciplined language.”That’s one of the things that’s impressive about the rugby guys is they run up and down the field and yet they can still communicate very clearly to each other and actually enhance the understanding of what’s going on. In time we’ll be doing that, start with some of the better third umpires and the ones who can adapt to that the easiest, but something we’re looking at in the medium term.”

BJ Watling will be able to put pressure on Luke Ronchi for New Zealand’s one-day wicketkeeping slot if he can increase his strike-rate

Andrew McGlashan19-Dec-2013BJ Watling will be able to put pressure on Luke Ronchi for New Zealand’s one-day wicketkeeping slot if he can increase his strike-rate. That was the strong indication given by Bruce Edgar, the national selection, after he named the one-day squad to face West Indies where Ronchi will be given a chance to cement the keeper’s role in the middle order but faces competition.Watling is secure in the Test position having enjoyed a productive 2013 where he has scored, as of the start of the Hamilton Test, 576 runs at 41.14 and performed tidily with the gloves. However, now that Brendon McCullum’s career behind the stumps is over there is potentially more fluidity in the one-day position and although Ronchi has the frontrunner’s position there are others in the frame.Ronchi’s and Watling’s one-day statistics make for an interesting comparison. In List A cricket, Watling averages 39.03 but his strike-rate is a steady 69.24 whereas Ronchi’s lower average of 28 comes with the eye-catching strike-rate of 105.12. At the moment it’s the scoring rate which is swaying the selectors.”He gives us firepower and naturally scores quickly,” Edgar said. “He’s got a strike-rate of around 120. BJ is also pushing the door, he’s close but he doesn’t quite give us that firepower. We know he’s working hard on it and he wants to challenge that spot.”Ronchi is already on his second chance having initially been dropped after a tough return to international cricket, following his previous stint for Australia, on the England tour and subsequent Champions Trophy earlier this year.He made 47 runs in six innings and was not in the squad to tour Bangladesh and Sri Lanka until Kane Williamson broke his thumb and McCullum was forced out with his back injury. He produced some solid displays in Sri Lanka and will now be the man with the gloves, and at No. 7, for the series against West Indies.New Zealand’s one-day squad was a statement of wanting to play aggressive cricket. Alongside the recall for Jesse Ryder, Edgar has also told Adam Milne, the Central Districts quick bowler, to let the handbrake go against West Indies. Milne, who went wicketless during the series in Sri Lanka, has the most to gain from Tim Southee missing the opening two matches due to needing minor toe surgery.”Adam did the hard yards on some pretty slow wickets and we want to give him the opportunity in the West Indies ODIs and give him a chance on our tracks which are hopefully quicker and bit bouncier and he can demonstrate how quick he is.”He also gave support to Mitchell McClenaghan to continue in his role as strike-bowler after he found life tougher in the subcontinent. Overall, McCleanghan has an impressive return of 35 wickets in 14 matches at 20.08.”His economy rate…was a factor of learning to bowl the right lengths on those pitches which is quite difficult. Prior to that his strike rate was very good and economy rate very good. He’s a hustler and tries to get wickets. By all accounts in the most recent Plunket Shield match he was giving guys a good hurry up. He wants to get wickets and knock the top off.”Fellow left-arm Trent Boult, who took 10 for 80 in the Wellington Test against West Indies, has been given hope of feature at the 2015 World Cup despite being overlooked for this squad. Boult has not played an ODI since February, against England in Napier, and is viewed as a red-ball specialist at the moment.”Trent has aspirations to play one-day cricket, we’ve had that discussion with him,” Edgar said. “He’s very keen to develop his white ball game and perhaps is less confident with the white ball over the red. He wants to do more work and become more confident and comfortable in that space.”We see him as part of our 2015 planning and it’s just a case of how he’s moving along. There may be an opportunity for him to come and play but we just want to see where he sits and how he’s going.”

The BCCI has convened an emergent working committee meeting in Chennai on January 23 to discuss the “position paper” that recommends an overhaul of ICC’s administration

Amol Karhadkar21-Jan-2014The BCCI has convened an emergent working committee meeting in Chennai on January 23 to discuss the “position paper” that recommends an overhaul of the ICC administration.Though the meeting notice circulated last week didn’t spell out the agenda, BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel confirmed the meeting would discuss the draft proposal that will wrest most of ICC’s powers into the hands of the triumvirate of the BCCI, CA and the ECB.”The meeting has been summoned to apprise and get the working committee’s nod for pushing BCCI’s case of getting more revenue from ICC’s earnings, as bulk of it is generated by the BCCI,” Patel told the , a Kolkata-based daily.Since the BCCI is one of the key stakeholders of the “position paper” drafted by a “working group” of the ICC’s Finance & Commercial Affairs (F&CA) committee, the members feel the meeting will be a mere formality to confirm BCCI’s support to the proposal. Most of the BCCI members and officials didn’t have a clue about the top bosses being involved in such discussions with CA and ECB for the last six months. However, since the proposed draft offers to boost BCCI’s coffers and thus offer more money to its affiliates, no working committee member is likely to oppose the proposal.”Some members may seek clarity on the financial model but in principle, there is no reason for anyone to oppose the proposal. If it means that bilateral tours could impact to a great extent in the coming years, so be it,” a former BCCI office-bearer said.The proposal is due to be put to the ICC Executive Board at its quarterly meeting in Dubai on January 28-29. The proposals would need seven votes out of ten to pass. However, over the last four days, it has evoked mixed responses from cricket boards across the globe. While New Zealand Cricket has supported the proposal, Cricket South Africa, the most adversely affected board as per the proposal, has requested the ICC for its withdrawal.