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Warne, McGrath deny being part of ICL

Just a day after Indian Cricket League's Executive Board chairman Kapil Dev said Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath have struck a deal with the Essel Group's Indian Cricket League (ICL), the claim has been rubbished by the Aussie duo.

Warne's manager James Erskine described the claim by the former Indian captain as 'nonsense' while the same attitude was taken by McGrath's manager Warren Craig.

''They did give me a call earlier in the week to see where we were at but we're certainly no closer to signing (a Deal with McGrath),'' Craig said in Sydney.

Erskine also insisted Warne would not be part of ICL if it was going to create turmoil, and rang Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland for clarification.

The world's leading wicket-taker in Tests said, ''I asked him politically what the situation is. He tells me that the BCCI are going to be in a situation where they're probably going to get upset by it. He wonders whether all the Indian players they say they're going to pick will fly in the face of the BCCI?'' ''We will wait and see what the political fallout is before anyone puts pen to paper,'' Warne was quoted as saying by 'The Australian'.

A report in the same newspaper yesterday quoted Kapil Dev as saying, ''They (Warne and McGrath) have signed contracts, so to me it means that they have taken the deal.'' Dean Jones, an ICL official who describes himself as operations manager, admitted Dev had overstated the case.

Source-Cricketzone.com