Top CA officials likely to travel to India to sort out issues with BCCI: Report
Top officials of Cricket Australia, including chairman Earl Eddings, are likely to travel to India in a bid to "heal wounds" with the BCCI following bad blood between the two Boards on the issue of three Australian players taking part in the planned women's IPL next month, according to a report.
Three Australian players -- Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy -- have been stopped by CA from taking part in the women's IPL to be held from May 6 to 11 in Jaipur owing to a men's bilateral series dispute with the BCCI.
An email from CA's top official Belinda Clark indicated that stopping the trio is a "pressure tactic" to ensure postponement of men's ODI series. As per the new Future Tours Programme, Australia were supposed to play three ODIs in January 2020, which is during the peak Australian summer, owing to pressure from broadcasters.
A senior Indian official had said that the CA was resorting to "blackmailing tactics".
A report in the Sydney Morning Herald said that CA CEO Kevin