BCCI never asked for Champions League window - Modi

IPL chairman Lalit Modi has said the BCCI never asked the ICC to create a window for both the IPL and the Champions League. "We have never propagated that we should be part of the Future Tours Programme [FTP] for the IPL or the Champions League because I think there is a natural window for these two events," he said in London. "We never asked for one and we are never going to ask for one."
His statement comes in the wake of ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat's contradiction to Modi's earlier claims that the Champions League had been slotted into the FTP.
Modi clarified his original statement which was made on the IPL website recently, saying "there was a miscommunication as far as I'm concerned." He also said the BCCI had worked with the ICC to slot the Champions League this year and all Test-playing nations were part of that solution in terms of creating space for the tournament.
Happy at the success of the second edition of the IPL, which had to be moved at the last minute to South Africa, Modi said he was confident that various members of the ICC would sit together to find space for the events like the IPL and Champions League, which already have strong support the players and their unions. "Going forward we will be working along with members and work out a solution in the new FTP which is in discussion," he said.