BCCI decides to keep mum

“It is an informal meeting and we have nothing to give to the press. Even the itinerary for the home series against Australia will be finalised at the working committee meeting to be held at Delhi on January 22, 2001,” he added.

The board’s secretary, Jaywant Lele, who had said that he would speak to the media on Saturday evening also toed Muthiah’s line by saying there is nothing to disclose to the press after the reporters from various National dailies and agencies waited for more than three hours for him to brief them.

The meeting which started at 1.30 pm went on till 7.30 pm with as many as 15 Core Group members attending it.

The meeting was to discuss about the show cause sent to Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) chief I S Bindra and finalising the Aussie itinerary among others.

Apart from Muthiah and Lele, others who attended the meeting were former ICC chief Jagmohan Dalmiya, BCCI vice president Kamal Morarka, Jyoti Bajpai, BCCI treasurer Kishore Rungta and former board president Raj Singh Dungarpur.

Special invitees for the meeting were NKP Salve, CK Khanna, PM Rungta, Ram Prasad, Ranbir Singh, SK Nair, Prof. Ratnakar Shetty, Shashank Manohar, Brijesh Patel, Narhari Amin and PK Mishra.