The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday blamed India for the failure to finalise new dates for the Champions Trophy at the ICC's just concluded two-day meeting.
Highly-placed PCB sources said that India had made this point during the ICC's chief executives committee meeting in Dubai, where fresh dates for the tournament were discussed but nothing was finalised.
"India is not interested in having the Champions Trophy at all. It has made clear that they see no necessity for this event on the ICC calendar," the source said.
The ICC had postponed the Champions Trophy till the next year after Australia, South Africa, England and New Zealand refused to send their teams because of security concerns for their players in the trouble-torn country.
The chief executives committee, after two-day deliberations authorised ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat to speak to the Boards and find a suitable window in the future tours programme to reschedule the Champions Trophy in 2009.
The hosting right, however, was retained with Pakistan.
The source said one of the main reasons for the ICC chief executives committee not finalising new dates for the tourney is because India has made it clear that it is due to host Australia for a seven match one-day series in October, 2009 and would not change their itinerary for the Champions Trophy.
