Cricket Australia snubs India's BCCI
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CANBERRA - Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland has snubbed India over refusal to play day and night cricket test match.
He today said India’s refusal to play a day-night Test during the series later this year is driven by a desperation to win Down Under even as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) stayed firm in its rejection of the proposed match.
Sutherland feels that it is CA’s prerogative to decide on the pink ball Test against India at Adelaide from December 6-10 but BCCI Committee of Administrators’ chief Vinod Rai once again made it clear that the game will not take place.
“I think personally the home country should have the right to schedule matches as it sees fit and start them at whatever time of day they want,” Sutherland told SEN Radio.
When CoA chief Rai was contacted by PTI, he said: “I don’t think BCCI’s stand will change. As it has already been decided, Day/Night pink ball matches will continue at the first-class level. Duleep Trophy will be played under lights once again.”
Rai, however, said that India’s reluctance to play Day/Night Test does not imply that the two boards are on collision course.
