The Board of Control for Cricket in India stuck to its contentious seven-point diktat for the selectors and said no decision was taken in Sunday's Working Committee meeting to compensate chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar for abiding by the guidelines.
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"The office bearers had laid down the guidelines. The Board felt that if there are any issues the office-bearers should deal with them," BCCI Treasurer N Srinivasan said in a press conference in Mumbai.
"No decision was taken on compensating anyone. As of now the guidelines stand," he added.
The guidelines, which prevented the selectors from writing columns or interacting with the media, irked Vengsarkar, who said he stood to lose Rs 40 lakh annually and hence needed to be compensated.
The former India captain even threatened to quit the post before relenting when BCCI President Sharad Pawar said the board would look at the issue.
The duo had a meeting on Saturday, which went off very well, according to Vengsarkar.
The Working Committee also decided to change the Ranji Trophy format from next season to enable plate division toppers too to fight for the trophy by including the top two in the knock-out quarterfinal phase with six Elite Division teams.
The Board also decided to double the infrastructure subsidy to associations from Rs 25 to Rs 50 crore.
It also ratified the appointment of Gary Kirsten as the national coach and Dav Whatmore as the Director of Operations of the National Cricket Academy, besides appointing former India batsman W V Raman as the under-19 team's coach for its forthcoming tour to South Africa.
Srinivasan said the decision to change the format of the Ranji Trophy from next year followed a suggestion from the Technical Committee headed by Sunil Gavaskar.
"This was done as per a suggestion from the Technical Committee. Some of the Plate group teams felt they were not playing for the Ranji Trophy," the BCCI official said.
The Committee also approved the three-Test tour to India by South Africa from mid-March 2008 and the England A team's participation in this year's Duleep Trophy as the sixth outfit.
"WV Raman and Rakesh Yadav were appointed as the under-19 team's coach and manager for the tour of South Africa commencing on December 28," he said.
The committee replaced the name of Delhi's Abhinav Bali with that of Bengal's Manoj Tiwari as the recipient of the BCCI's annual awards as the best under 22 cricketer in the 2006-07 season.
The BCCI had announced Bali as the winner of the M A Chidambaram Trophy and the cash prize of Rs. 50,000 On Saturday before it was found out that the player was ineligible as he had joined the rebel Indian Cricket League which is not recognised by the board.
