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Looks like ICC is giving BCCI a DANDAA!
ICC warns India over scheduling
The ICC fears India are set to rip up previously agreed playing commitments
International cricket chiefs have told India not to go ahead with their threat to organise their own playing schedule.
India announced on Monday their plans to quit the ICC Champions Trophy after this year and host Australia for three years from 2007.
ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed has written to the Board of Control for Cricket in India to state his concern.
He fears the BCCI is "taking what appear to be unilateral decisions that are contrary to ICC policy".
India's announcement that they are snubbing the Champions Trophy and intend to play Australia was taken as a signal they are ready to break from the ICC's "future tours programme" (FTP).
This currently allows for each of the 10 Test-playing nations to face each other home and away over a five-year cycle.
But Speed has told BCCI honorary secretary Niranjan Shah that the FTP, which was agreed in Auckland in 2004, is binding on all ICC members. "Any attempt by a member to amend it unilaterally without the consent of the ICC executive board is invalid," said Speed. "With the greatest of respect to the BCCI, could I urge you to take these decisions into account when you are considering scheduling of matches."
Source: BBC Cricket