CRICKET: India's Test Threat Leaves Board Fuming over Tour

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IF THE tussle for dominance on the pitch between England and India has only just started, the two country's Boards have been sparring for weeks. In the latest round of brinkmanship between them, the England and Wales Cricket Board has been told that the Indian team will only play three Tests next summer instead of the four that had been agreed earlier in the year.

The threat comes at a time when relations between the ECB and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have been strained, following the recent palaver over security. It also arrives close on the heels of the ECB's recent refusal to agree to two more one-day internationals - eventually reduced to one - to the …