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The Wankhede giant screen fiasco seems to have woken up the authorities of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) who now want to prevent such public embarrassments. Thehas asked the state associations to stop flashing fan messages on the giant screen inside the grounds.As reported by this paper yesterday, the Wankhede screen carried some ‘sick’ messages during the justconcluded fourth Test againstand it attracted public criticism and questions from thematch referee.Although no one in the board is coming on record, it has been learnt that instruction have been issued to the hosting associations to guard against such messages. To begin with, theCricket Association () has been told to prevent that during the fifth and final Test against England which starts in Chennai on Friday.A BCCI official admitted that members of Tech Front, the operators of the giant screen at the Wankhede, have been spoken to. “Corrective measures are being put in place. You can say that there won’t be such fan messages in future. Strict instructions have gone to the state association and the operators have been seriously spoken to,” said a BCCI official.It is understood that match referee Jeff Crowe had spoken to the BCCI officials after the fiasco was brought to his notice. Crowe discussed the issue with hosts Mumbai Cricket Association () members as well.Meanwhile, the BCCI is close to zeroing in on venues for the quarter-finals for the Ranji Trophy. It is likely that Rajkot, Indore, Jaipur and Visakhapatnam will be the hosting centres of the last eight knock-out games.and Kalyani were expected to host the games but it has been learnt that Kalyani is not equipped enough to host a knock-out game. There is no word about Kolkata though.For the record, the BCCI officials say the venues and fixtures will be finalised after the last league game betweenandin Thiruvananthapuram from December 15. The quarter-finals start on December 24.