BCCI to consider ICC threat on Nov 29

The Board of Control for Cricket in India Cricket Board (BCCI) will consider the International Cricket Council's threat of penalties for calling off the proposed tour of Pakistan early next year, at its special general meeting in Calcutta on November 29, according to Board secretary Jaywant Lele.

The meeting which has been called to discuss BCCI Anti Corruption Commissioner K Madhavan's report after his examination of the five cricketers and others named in the CBI report on betting and matchfixing, will also deliberate on the fallout of the cancellation of the Pakistan tour following the government's veto, Lele told PTI on phone from Baroda today.

Board President AC Muthiah is away in Singapore on a business visit and could not be contacted for his reaction.

The 11-day gap will also give time for the Board to plan out its strategy to combat the threat as its former President Raj Singh Dungarpur, now in Lahore to attend ICC's Marketing and Finance Committee meeting, will be back before that with first hand information on the happenings there.

Soon after his arrival in Lahore yesterday, ICC chief Malcolm Grey had said cricket's apex body may consider a financial penalty against India for canceling the tour.

Gray even went a step further by threatening suspension of India from playing against any other Test-playing country. "That sanction really can only be either financial or ultimately to suspend their membership from playing against any other Test-playing country," he said. "This would put pressure back on the government to review the decision," Gray said.