Ajay Shirke. (TOI Photo)

NEW DELHI: The tussle between the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI ) has taken a new turn with the Indian cricket board is now mulling to pull out of the next year's Champions Trophy , scheduled to be held in England after being excluded from the ICC 's finance committee meeting held few days ago in Dubai.

BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke reacted angrily to the latest ICC snub and termed it as 'humiliating'. "These are the committees where all the important decisions are taken - finance, commerce and chief executives committee; India not having a representative (in those committees) is a humiliation for us. We will tell the ICC, 'either you amend this or we will decide what to do to protect India's cricket interests globally'. It could be anything. We may even not play the Champions Trophy. Better sense may prevail, and we may not reach that stage at all. But there are so many options," he told Indian Express.

The BCCI has reportedly been angry with several latest developments, including ICC's proposal of a two-tier Test structure and the decision to disband the 'Big Three' reforms. However, the ICC gave in to the pressure from the world's richest cricket body and withdrew the two-tier Test system.

"The two-tier Test system proposal, which was supposed to come up for discussion during the two-day Chief Executives Committee (CEC) meeting in Dubai has been taken off the table keeping in mind the objections raised by four members. The ICC will now look afresh at the whole aspect," a source in the ICC told PTI on Wednesday.

The BCCI also expressed its reservations with the ICC's decision to earmark a budget of $135 million (approx) as the organisational cost for the 2017 Champions Trophy.

The budget is a three-fold increase from the $45 million that was allocated to the BCCI by the ICC for the World T20 held from March 8 to April 3, earlier this year.

