NEW DELHI – BCCI acting Chief Amitab Choudhary has taken a big u turnstating BCCI “never signed any contract” with PCB with regards to bilateralseries.
Pakistani cricket authorities claim that their Indian counterparts haveviolated a 2014 memorandum of understanding under which the two were toplay six bilateral series between 2015 and 2023.
The PCB link> is seeking $70 million incompensation as a dispute resolution panel of the ICC will hear the claimin October.
“It’s a statement of intent and not a contract. I don’t blame them forsticking to the letter. But it is not a contract,” Choudhary told reporterson the sidelines of the ICC quarterly meeting on Monday.
“They have their own pressure at home which I understand,” he saidindicating to a letter dated April 9, 2014 written by the erstwhilesecretary Sanjay Patel toPCB link> chairmanNajam Sethi.
According to the letter, BCCI link> andPCBlink> agree that the senior men’s cricketteams of India and Pakistan will play each other but the letter will have”no effect” if the resolutions are not passed at the ICC Annual Conferencein June 2014.