MUMBAI, April 10: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Tuesday stated that the team for next month's tour of Bangladesh would be picked only after April 15.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said that he would discuss the issue with the selection panel Chairman Dilip Vengsarkar and decide where and when a preparatory camp should be held while finalising the date and venue of the selection committee meeting.

The BCCI Working Committee has already given a directive to the selectors to pick a young team, but the manner in which the latter would fulfil the all-powerful panel's wish is unclear.

There is a likelihood of the selectors initially picking around 25 probables for the short tour.

The thorny issue of the players' contracts and the BCCI diktat over their endorsement deals, however, stand as a potentially big hurdle ahead of the team's selection.

The BCCI has directed all the players to submit copies of their existing endorsement contracts.—Agencies