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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly cancelled its five-year broadcast deal with Zee Television, putting a question mark over next months three-match ODI series against South Africa.
Mumbai, May 30 : The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly cancelled its five-year broadcast deal with Zee Television, putting a question mark over next month's three-match ODI series against South Africa.
India is scheduled to play South Africa in three one-dayers in Belfast from June 26 to July 1, besides another against hosts Ireland.
The matches fell under series of 25 games to be played by the Indian team at neutral venues covered by the BCCI-Zee deal worth 219,000 dollars.
According to the Cricinfo website, the deal ran into difficulties after a meeting on Tuesday.
The BCCI are now in discussions with another broadcaster," the website reported.
No board official was available for comment on the development.
Rumours are doing the rounds that the cancellation has taken place also because of Zee Telefilms announcing the formation of breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL) which would offer annual prize money of one million dollars.
The league will be parallel to the functioning of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra saidlast month that the league would initially be played in the Twenty20 format.
The Indian Cricket League, set up with a corpus of rupees one billion, will be launched later this year.The league will have six teams in the inaugural edition and each team will comprise of four foreign, two Indian and eight budding players.
Chandra said each of the six teams would be coached by a former India player.
The Indian Cricket League will be a joint effort of Essel Group and IL and FS.
Chandra said the Essel group also had the plan of setting up cricket academies and the BCCI was free to draw from the pool of talented players.
Former Indian captain Kapil Dev will head the Executive Board of the ICL. The other members of the Executive Board include former stumper and ex-chief selector Kiran More, former England captain Tony Greig and Australian cricketer-turned-commentator Dean Jones.
ANI
