Having failed to get a confirmation from Cricket Australia over the participation of its women players for the T20 exhibition matches next month, the BCCI has decided to go ahead and announce the squads for the four-match event to be played in Jaipur.

ESPNcricinfo understands that on April 4, the BCCI sent an email to CA to check whether the Australian women players would be allowed to play in the exhibition matches just like in 2018. Next day, former Australian women's captain Belinda Clark, who is CA'S interim high-performance head, wrote back saying that any decision could only be taken after the two boards sorted the scheduling of Australian men's ODI tour of India next January.

The men's ODI series has emerged as a sticking point between the two boards, with CA facing the prospect of having no ODI series during the home summer for the first time in several decades. It is believed that CA chief executive Kevin Roberts has been trying hard to request his BCCI counterpart Rahul Johri to reconsider the Indian position and allow the three-match ODI series to be deferred.

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