The Board of Control for Cricket in India has voiced its opposition to International Cricket Council (ICC) plans of adding fresh tournaments to the calendar due to the negative impact they would have on its revenue.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah revealed that the ICC wanted to include more events, including a Twenty20 World Cup, adding that it would also affect the Indian board's plans to secure a regular home series every year during the peak season from October.
"We don't mind honouring ICC decisions, but they can't go on adding tournaments and taking away from our pie," he said on Thursday. "Eighty percent of the money comes from India."
Indian board officials would raise the issue when they met the ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed at its headquarters in Dubai on Friday to finalise details for the Champions Trophy to be staged in India in October-November, he added.
The BCCI is seen in confrontation with the ICC after announcing this week that India would skip the biennial Champions Trophy after 2006 because it was being held during its busy season, and consequently, would affect its revenue.
The ICC has warned the BCCI against making such a unilateral decision.
"We've not cancelled any committed tour which is there in the Future Tours Programme (FTP)," Shah said.
"We may also give our thoughts [on Friday] on the long-term plans ICC has sent us. That would take away October-November every year from our cricket," he said from Rajkot.
The ICC has sent national boards its programme from 2007 to 2015 as part of its bid to secure a fresh long-term commercial contract after the current $550 million deal ends after next year's World Cup in West Indies.
"Our basic complaint is if England and Australia can plan regular home series every year, why should we not plan," Shah said. "India is a major force."
Cricket-mad India is world cricket's commercial hub and the majority of the ICC sponsors come from the country.
The Indian board had also said they were finalising an annual series with Australia between 2007 and 2009, to be played during October-November.
Shah said the Australian board has agreed to the plan "in principle" and it was expected to be finalised soon.
"Three is no confrontation, the ICC is a democratic set-up," Shah said.
"If we have an issue why shouldn't we put our foot down?"
