BCCI denies talks with players' agents

MUMBAI: The Indian Cricket Board today rebuffed the sponsors of India’s top cricketers by refusing to even discuss with them the issue of sponsorship.

“We are ready to talk to the players if they approach us. Players can certainly send to the Board their representation on the matter. But we can’t talk to advertising agents or others. We can talk only with the players,” BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah told reporters on Thursday.

“Let the players come to us. We’ll see,” he added.

Shah said the Board had received letters from players’ sponsors on the matter but ruled out any talk with anyone other than the players directly.

“What’s the use?” he said. Shah said the decision taken by the BCCI Working Committee on April 7 to cap the number of endorsements per player to three stood unchanged.

He, however, reiterated that the Board was willing to consider a representation from its players on the controversial endorsements issue.