Melbourne, May 7
Cricket Australia today agreed to play an ODI series in India early next year, days after trying to backtrack from the commitment by stopping their top women players from competing in the ongoing Women’s T20 Challenge in Jaipur. Cricket Australia in fact used their three women players, Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy, to “blackmail the BCCI” as senior officials pointed out at top CA official Belinda Clark’s email.
The two boards seem to have resolved the differences with the CA releasing its entire summer schedule today. “Cricket Australia will honour its commitment to tour India for three ODIs in mid-January, which had caused a reshuffle of the home international schedule and pushed back the Chappell-Hadlee series,” CA confirmed the development on its official website while releasing the 2019-2020 itinerary.
Despite the 10-day tour being part of the FTP agreement between the two boards, CA was trying to backtrack after pressure from its home broadcaster, which was peeved that the home series against New Zealand during peak Australian summer was affected.
New Zealand will play the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy (three-Test series) in December, but their ODI series has been pushed to March as Australia will be travelling to India. “CA took the position that while January was our preference for these ODI matches, there are times we need to honour our commitments to work in the greater context of international cricket scheduling,” CA’s Head of Cricket Operations Peter Roach said. — PTI
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2H6PCSM
via Today’s News Headlines
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