Indian news round-up

The Indian cricket selectors would meet in Mumbai on August 2 to pick the Test squad for the three Test matches against Sri Lanka from August 14.

The executive secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Sharad Diwadkar, told PTI in Mumbai on Thursday that four to five changes are likely from the squad which is playing in the on-going triangular series with New Zealand as the third team.

The three Test matches would be played at Galle (from August 14 to 18), Kandy (from August 22-26) and at the SSC in Colombo (from August 29 to September 2).

The Indian Cricket Board's (BCCI) advisory committee, chaired by former Indian team skipper Sunil Gavaskar, would meet at the Cricket Club of India (CCI) in Mumbai on August 1.

BCCI executive secretary, Sharad Diwadkar, told PTI in Mumbai on Friday on Friday that the main agenda would be to discuss the domestic calendar and the new formats for the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy for the new season.

"The selection committee will meet the following day to pick the Test squad for the three-match series in Sri Lanka," Diwadkar added.

A CBI team has reached Monaco to probe the alleged bungling in the award of telecast rights of the 1999 World Cup played in England, agency sources said in New Delhi on Thursday. The Deputy Inspector General of the Anti-Corrpution Unit of the CBI SP Singh reached Monaco, an island located at the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of France, earlier this week to probe the alleged bungling.

CBI sources said that the television deal between the International Cricket Council, officials of Doordarshan and Worldtel took place in this island and the sleuths are hopeful of "picking up some threads about the deal."

Singh earlier visited London and held extensive discussions with ICC's Anti-Corruption unit officials in connection with investigation into the controversial television rights deal for the ICC knock out tournament in Dhaka three years ago.