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'No imminent action against talkative cricketers', says Raj Singh

President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Raj Singh Dungarpur said that it was premature to say whether the three players -- Robin Singh, Rahul Dravid and Saurav Ganguly, who spoke to the press after the World Cup, will be disciplined by the BCCI.

Raj Singh said the players were under contractual obligations regarding talking to the media. ''We will have to verify the exact details first,'' he said, "before deciding what action to take, if any."

The concerned players had aired their views after returning from the World Cup in England, which created a furore among cricketing circles and cricket buffs alike. It was Dravid's comments which created a furore, as did Robin Singh's and Ganguly's outbursts.

Singh had stated what he felt should not have happened in India's World Cup campaign, while Ganguly in a signed article for a Bengali daily had expressed his view that Sachin should have batted at number four.

''We will have to see how much did Singh speak, because he issued a denial after the news was published,'' Raj Singh said.

He however refused to answer when it was pointed out that Singh had made not just one comment, but several in which he questioned the lack of cohesive effort in the team.

BCCI secretary J Y Lele meanwhile said that the board has sought an explanation from the three players, and the matter will be discussed in the next working committee meeting, to be held at a venue still to be finalised, sometime in the last week of July.

Lele further said that the captain of the team to tour Sri Lanka for a triangular tournament in August will be selected on July 27 or 28, and the rest of the team will be selected in the first week of August.

UNI