da bet7k： LONDON – A mooted one-day cricket series between Australia and India inSeptember has been scrapped
Will Swanton19-Jul-2001LONDON – A mooted one-day cricket series between Australia and India inSeptember has been scrapped.Australian Cricket Board chief executive James Sutherland made theannouncement with regret at Lord’s today.”India has withdrawn from the Super Challenge series,” he said.”From an ACB point of view we are quite disappointed, given thatpreviously we had undertakings from the board in India that it would goahead and we had put plans in place for it to go ahead.”It was a great opportunity for Australian fans to see the great Indianplayers that we saw in the series just gone.”Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president AC Muttiahinformed the ACB by fax that his players were unavailable because of analready congested schedule.The three-game series would have been held in Brisbane and Melbourne,indoors at Colonial Stadium.A replacement for India will not be sought.Australian captain Steve Waugh had previously questioned theavailability of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and himself because theirwives are due to give birth in September.”They were all available to play and they were all going to play subjectto nature taking its course,” said Sutherland.”It was a full strength Australian side but if someone went into labourat a time that clashed, we were going to be as understanding aspossible.”Sutherland also said playing Test and limited overs matches in winter intropical areas like Darwin, Cairns and Alice Springs was “a goodoption.””One of the great things about the country we live in is that we canplay cricket all year round if we find the right place,” he said.”I wouldn’t like to put time frame on it, wouldn’t like to be definitivebut we’ve certainly looked closely at it.”