KOLKATA, Sept 22: India’s cricket board postponed its annual meeting and elections on Thursday amid fierce in-fighting. “Claims and counter claims started and then I decided to adjourn the meeting,” Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Ranbir Mahendra told reporters.

No date was set for a new meeting.

The acrimony began when India’s agriculture minister Sharad Pawar opposed Mahendra.

Last year, Pawar also made a bid for the presidency but lost to Mahendra. The contest had ended in a tie but Jagmohan Dalmiya, the influential former ICC president, used his casting vote as outgoing president.

This year’s meeting was preceded by court petitions from both factions to get independent observers appointed.

The stalemate raised uncertainty over Tuesday’s planned meeting to review the team’s recent poor one-day run and the awarding of TV rights, an issue which has been mired in legal disputes for months.—Reuters