Kolkata could host India-Lanka Pune ODI

KOLKATA: BCCI on Thursday suggested to the Cricket Association of Bengal that the February 8 India-Sri Lanka one-dayer, originally slated to be held in Pune, be shifted to the Eden Gardens, a day after Kolkata Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee was elected new CAB President.

Eden Gardens has not hosted any international match since 2006.

"BCCI Vice-President Shashank Manohar rang me up and asked me whether we are ready to host the match as there are some problems in hosting the match in Pune," Mukherjee said.

Mukherjee said that he requested Manohar that the BCCI forward a formal offer to the CAB in this regard.

"Then we can take a decision. Time is too short. If we indeed host the match here, then we have to start work on a war footing," he said.

Soon after receiving the BCCI request, CAB officials were closeted at a meeting on Thursday night.

CAB has called its working committee meeting on Saturday.

The CAB, formerly led by Jagmohan Dalmiya, had been at loggerheads with the BCCI which had stopped all subsidies and grants to the affiliate unit over Dalmiya's alleged misappropriation of PILCOM funds.

Dalmiya was banned from BCCI for life last month following which he resigned as CAB President.