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ECB men to meet BCCI

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Mumbai: The England and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) director of operations, John Carr, and chief executive of the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA), Richard Bevan, are to meet Board of Cricket for Cricket India (BCCI) officials in Kolkata, persuade them and get a good deal for England's tour of India in March-April next year.

The two officials had visited Pakistan last July to interact with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on security aspects, but Mr. Carr and Mr. Bevan will be in India soon to sort out venue-related matters.

The ECB is said to be unhappy with the choice of a handful of venues, including Guwahati.

The media in England too has criticised the BCCI after its Tour Programmes and Fixtures Committee announced the venues for three Tests and seven one-day internationals recently.

According to the BCCI announcement England would play Test matches at Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Mumbai and the one-day internationals at Goa, Indore, Guwahati, Faridabad, Cuttack, Cochin and Visakhapatnam.

The Goa Cricket Association (GCA), though, would have to wait until the BCCI's Working Committee deliberates with finality on an Inquiry Committee report — submitted by the former executive secretary of the BCCI Sharad Diwadkar — on the alleged mismanagement of the India-Australia match played at the Fatroda Stadium, on April 6, 2001.

A Goa-government appointed Inquiry Commission had held three officials guilty of printing, distributing and selling fake tickets.

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