India "will tour West Indies in July-August for a four-match test series which will mark the resumption of bilateral ties between them, the cricket boards announced on Saturday," according to Amlan Chakraborty of REUTERS. Relations between the two boards "turned sour after a visiting Caribbean team pulled out midway through their 2014 tour of India over a protracted pay dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board."
The Board of Control for Cricket in India "immediately suspended all planned Caribbean tours" and demanded nearly $42M in damages.
BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said, "BCCI is happy to resume their bilateral ties with WICB." Last week India "dropped the damages claim."
Dates and venues of the series were "not disclosed but any contest against India translates into significant television revenue" (REUTERS, 5/1).
ANOTHER HURDLE: In Sydney, Peter Lalor wrote the push to play two day-night Tests this summer "faces another hurdle with the Australian Cricketers Association saying the players want to play only one game." The feeling among players "was that the pink ball was still too early in its development to warrant two matches."
Cricket Australia "announced a day-night match against Pakistan in Brisbane in December, but plans to hold another in November against South Africa have been put on hold as that country’s board and players objected" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 4/30).
