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BCCI meeting slated for November 6

Round two of the battle for supremacy in Indian cricket between the Jagmohan Dalmiya faction and the Inderjit Singh Bindra group will be fought out in Madras on November 6, when the adjourned annual general body meeting of the BCCI is reconvened.

The meeting, it will be recalled, came to a controversial end on September 21 on a minor technical quibble. BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur, fighting for re-election against Pune's Dnyaneshwar Agashe who has the backing of the Bindra group, said the technical point has been rectified, and other key items on the agenda such as finalisation of cricket tours and naming of the new selection committee, will all be conducted on November 6.

The tours committee of the BCCI has proposed that Test centres not be allotted any day games -- only day-night fixtures will be permitted, it has been proposed.

Thus, the seven matches of the quadrangular between India, Zimbabwe, Australia and Sri Lanka, slated for early next year, will not be given to Bombay, Mohali, Delhi, Kanpur, Madras, Bangalore or Calcutta, as all are slated to be daytime affairs. As and when day-night games are scheduled, they will be allotted to the Test centres in turn.