Reportedly, BCCI has some ‘concrete suggestions’ which will be put forward by them at the meeting which will be attended by David Morgan ICC president who will attempt broker a peace deal between Indian Cricket League and BCCI. The meeting will also be attended by Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland. Prior meetings between the parties have yielded no results but this time the parties appear more hopeful of arriving at a meeting point. “We are going to the meeting with an open mind. Let's see what the BCCI has to offer us,” an ICL source was quoted as having said in the cricket news.

An earlier suggestion of the BCCI which was deemed unacceptable by the ICL, was that the ICL be disbanded and be given the option of running an Indian Premier League team. Another perceived option is Indian Cricket League paying a substantial fee to the BCCI in return for being granted ‘recognition’. Given the current situation, perhaps the following scenarios may be envisioned:

• The Indian Cricket League could become a sort of second division to the IPL and a system of mutual promotion and relegation be worked out between the two leagues. May be such a rung structure can be worked out.

• In the alternative the Indian Cricket League could continue as a separate entity by paying a sort of license fee to the BCCI and on the understanding and undertaking that the ICL does not contract ant current Indian player to its league.

There are several reasons that it is likely that a deal will be brokered sooner rather than later: for one the automatic ban on players from countries like Pakistan Australia and others who have chosen to play in the Indian Cricket League hampers the respective boards from optimum functioning. Due to this many individual boards, like the PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) especially are pressuring the ICC to have BCCI and the ICL sort out their inter se problems.

So perhaps it is very likely that we may see in the cricket news, a resolution to the current stalemate that exists between the parties upon conclusion of the talks in Johannesburg.

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