Kolkata, Mar 28: With the World Cup over, the vexed contract issue is likely to resurface with the International Cricket Council sticking to its decision to withold India's guarantee money from the cup due to the dispute. "The contract issue was temporarily put on the back-burner because of the cup. But now that the cup is over, the process to sort out the matter has to start once again," BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya told a news agency here. The disupte figured prominently during the ICC executive board meeting in South Africa last week, with some of the members trying to pin India on the controversy. Though Dalmiya remained tight-lipped on deliberations at the executive board, sources said the meeting was "stormy" and at one stage ICC chief executive officer Malcolm Speed even proposed that the BCCI heavyweight be banned from all its meetings.

In his report, speed reportedly claimed that two directors had asked him to report to the executive board on the role played by BCCI in that litigation.


Speed, however, failed to garner much support for his proposal to keep Dalmiya out of the board mainly in the face of strong opposition from South Africa and Zimbabwe, while other members rallied behind them. Only New Zealand board provided some degree of support to Speed. Bureau Report