Kolkata, June 23: Giving a new twist to the players' contract imbroglio, the Indian Cricket Board today said it was contemplating filing a counter claim against Global Cricket Corporation (GCC), the marketing arm of International Cricket Council, for its "failure to properly market the World Cup." "We definitely reserve our right to file a counter-claim against GCC," the BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya told a news agency here. He said he had made this point during the board meeting of the ICC Development International (IDI), ICC's business arm, at Monaco on Saturday. It was Dalmiya's first comment after returning from Monaco yesterday where the IDI board decided against releasing India's guarantee money of approximately 9 million US dollar in view of the likely claims for damages from the GCC for violation of ambush marketing clauses by Indian players during the World Cup in South Africa. Dalmiya said India's counter-claim would be based on the contention that marketing of the World Cup by GCC was not proper.
Bureau Report