BCCI keeps outcome of Core Group meeting a secret

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today refused to brief the media about the outcome of its `Core Group' meeting held at the Cricket Club of India (CCI) here.

Board president AC Muthiah told PTI that there was nothing to give to the media. "It is an informal meeting and we have nothing to give to the press. Even the itinerary for the home series against Australia will be finalised at the working committee meeting to be held at Delhi on January 22, 2001," he added.

The board secretary, Jaywant Lele, who had said that he would speak to the media this evening also toed Muthiah's line by saying there was nothing to disclose to the press after the reporters waited for more than three hours for him to brief them.

The meeting which started at 1.30 pm went on till 7.30 pm with as many as 15 Core Group members attending it.

The meeting was to discuss the show cause notice sent to Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) chief IS Bindra and finalise the Australian itinerary among other decisions.

Apart from Muthiah and Lele, others who attended the meeting were former ICC chief Jagmohan Dalmiya, BCCI vice president Kamal Morarka, Jyoti Bajpai, BCCI treasurer Kishore Rungta and former board president Raj Singh Dungarpur.

Special invitees for the meeting were NKP Salve, CK Khanna, PM Rungta, Ram Prasad, Ranbir Singh, SK Nair, Prof. Ratnakar Shetty, Shashank Manohar, Brijesh Patel, Narhari Amin and PK Mishra.