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MUMBAI, JAN 20: The Indian cricket team8217;s return from New Zealand has been kept a closely guarded secret in view of the attack on the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI headquarters here and threats held out to the cricketers.
8220;The place of arrival of the Indian team is not known and it has been kept a secret,8221; informed Sharad Diwadkar, the BCCI executive secretary while speaking to The Indian Express this evening. 8220;As per the original schedule the team was to land at Mumbai on Thursday evening. However, there has been a change in the arrival plans. The BCCI secretary Jaywant Lele has informed me about the decision following which I have cancelled the players8217; hotel bookings here and their air tickets to their respective destinations from Mumbai,8221; he said. The team is at present camping in Hong Kong, he added.
Meanwhile, the BCCI office which was ransacked by vandals on Monday, will start functioning from tomorrow. 8220;I have hired typewriters, fax machines etc and it would be businessas usual from tomorrow,8221; disclosed Diwadkar. He said that the decision to shift the office to Calcutta has not been conveyed to him officially. 8220;I have not yet been apprised of the execution of the transfer. As the executive secretary, I would have to work out the modalities of the transfer once I receive the go ahead signal from the BCCI,8221; he added.
