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Tendulkar, three others, for Toronto

Raj Singh Dungarpur, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India said today that four players, including Sachin Tendulkar, Ajay Jadeja, Robin Singh and Anil Kumble, would fly to join the Indian team, which is playing a five-match one-day international series against Pakistan at Toronto.

Dungarpur said he had talked to the players today and told them that nobody will think that they lost deliberately as part of the game. The players played their best but it was not enough, he added.

His statements contradicted those made by BCCI general secretary J Y Lele, who had said earlier that all the players would return to the country following their defeat at the Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur.

Earlier reports in a section of press that asserted the four players had been already booked for Canada even before the game with Australia was played. This had aroused suspicions that "something fishy" was afoot.

An annoyed Lele, later, had denied all these charges.