Indian team for Bangladesh not before April 15

MUMBAI: The Indian team for next month's short tour of Bangladesh is to be chosen only after April 15, the Cricket Board said on Monday.

"I will discuss with Dilip Vengsarkar and decide when and where a preparatory camp should be held while finalising the date and venue of the selection committee meeting," BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said.

The BCCI Working Committee has already given a directive to the selectors to pick a young team, but the manner in which the latter would fullfil the all-powerful panel's wish, is unclear.

There is a likelihood of the selectors initially picking around 25 probables for the short tour.

The thorny issue of the players' contracts and the BCCI diktat over their endorsement deals, however, stand as a potentially big hurdle ahead of the team's selection.

The Board has directed all the players to submit copies of their existing endorsement contracts besides putting a cap on the number of sponsorship deals they can sign at a time though this would not apply to existing contracts.

The performance-based match fee structure with a flat retainer for an unspecified number of players yet to be contracted could be another area of conflict between them and the cricket establishment.

Skipper Rahul Dravid has expressed a wish through the media statement on Sunday for having a dialogue with the board officials on the raging issue.

On the other hand the BCCI is keen that the players sign the new contracts before departing for Bangladesh.