Talks between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) failed on Thursday raising questions on the latter's bid to obtain official status from the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The BCCI in an official statement said that it's not going to hold any further discussion with the ICL management as they couldn't find any common ground.
"The meeting in Delhi between the officials of the BCCI and the ICL to see if there was any common ground has failed and there are no plans for any further meeting," BCCI secretary N Srinivas said in a statement.
While the ICL business head Himanshu Mody blamed BCCI for not being serious about resolving the issue. ICL chairman and former Indian skipper Kapil Dev has also expressed his unhappiness over the meeting.
ICL, the first private cricket league in India to conduct Twenty20 series, was launched last year with an aim to produce high quality young cricketers. But running parallel to BCCI's own cricket league, the Indian Premier League (IPL), it was banned by the Indian cricket body.
ICL contracted cricketers from countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia have been banned by the respective country cricket boards from representing their respective national teams.
Earlier, ICL had appealed to the ICC for recognition, but the international cricket governing body asked ICL to first get recognition from the BCCI before obtaining accreditation from the ICC. It had directed BCCI to hold talks with ICL.
Meanwhile, ICC general manager Dave Richardson said in a statement: "One of our primary parameters in recognising such leagues is acceptance of that league by that country's board."
The entire standoff between ICL and BCCI in late days was softened when first the England cricket board allowed the rebel cricketers to play in county cricket and then Sri Lankan Cricket Board gave pass to league players to domestic cricket circuit. ICL too demands authorisation on the grounds of ICC's existing code of conduct which allows unofficial cricket bodies to function simultaneously.
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