Top CA officials likely to travel to India to sort out issues with BCCI: Report

Following bad blood between the BCCI and CA on the issue, CA top officials including chairman Earl Eddings can have a meeting with BCCI to "heal wounds". It is reported that the BCCI took this step in the wake of men's bilateral series dispute with the BCCI

Top officials of Cricket Australia are likely to travel to India after Cricket Australia (CA) barred its woman cricketers -- Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy -- to participate in the upcoming T20 Challenge which will be played during the final week of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019. Following bad blood between the BCCI and CA on the issue, CA top officials including chairman Earl Eddings can have a meeting with BCCI to "heal wounds". It is reported that the BCCI took this step in the wake of men's bilateral series dispute with the BCCI. As per the new Future Tours Program, Australia were supposed to play three ODIs in January 2020, which is during the peak Australian summer, owing to pressure from broadcasters. A report in the Sydney Morning Herald said that CA CEO Kevin Roberts and chairman Eddings are likely to fly to India next month to "try and patch up Australia's most important relationship to avoid it turning more ugly". "Hostility with India is a dangerous proposition for CA, which is just getting back on its feet following last year's ball-tampering crisis and which relies, like other cricket nations, so heavily on broadcast-rights revenue from the world's second most populous country," the report said. "Roberts had tentatively planned to travel to India next month and it now seems likely that trip will go ahead with Eddings in tow. Far from spoiling for a fight, the power imbalance with India means they might as well be turning up with their tails between their legs," it said.