BCCI asks PCB to wait a fortnight for schedule

With Pakistan's tour of India drawing closer, the BCCI conveyed to the Pakistan Cricket Board that tour schedules would be ready within a fortnight, after the PCB's president, Shaharyar Khan, had expressed that the process needed to be speeded up for logistical reasons.

SK Nair, the secretary of the BCCI, said that the board had to clear a few logistical issues of its own before the schedules could be announced. He told Cricinfo that matters were "in their [the BCCI's] control", and refused to state what the problems were, but added that the PCB had been informed.

In response to Shaharyar's apprehension about Pakistan playing in Mumbai, Nair said, "They have to give us logical reasons against a particular centre, and then we will examine them."

While both boards seemed to have come to an understanding over the delay, time and the BCCI haven't been the best of friends. This incident was the latest in a number of delayed decisions taken by the board. The recent television rights bids, for example, were held uncomfortably close to the end of the previous rights holder's tenure, and when the matter ended up in court, the BCCI took unprecedented measures to ensure that the Australian and South African tours of India sailed smoothly.