The International Cricket Council (ICC) today confirmed that it had no record of receiving a letter from the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) that precedes the Indian Board's unqualified acceptance of its contract for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 that was referred to in an Indian paper today.

ICC President Malcolm Gray said that the suggestion that a letter existed first arose in early December, several months after the ICC and the BCCI had started to work through this issue.

"The ICC and the BCCI have been working on this issue for several months now and the suggestion that this letter existed first arose on 9 December 2002. The ICC has no record of ever receiving this piece of correspondence," said Mr Gray.

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