A BCCI official has told CNN-IBN that the players still have reservations about the new contracts and the negotiations will take place after the Bangladesh tour.

In fact no player have been paid any money - either the match fee or the retainer-ship fee - since the old contract expired in September 2006 and most importantly the players are unwilling to sign the new contracts.

They want the BCCI to revise the contracts and to resolve the logjam fresh negotiations will take place after the Bangladesh tour and all the payments will be cleared after that. The revised contracts will include the new match fee and bonus structure.

Speaking to CNN-IBN, BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said: "If the players do not sign the contract the Board will sort it out after the Bangladesh tour."

When asked if the players had decided not to sign the contact in its present form, Shah said: "I have no information on this. I am going to Kolkata day after tomorrow, and if the players have any reservations, they will let me know. Actually the Working Committee has decided that it is not retainer-ship, but gradation, and that was the gradation amount on retainer-ship. Contracts have been offered to every player and Rs five lakh is just a retainer-ship. Now in future, each player, when selected for an international tour will have to sign a contract."

Following the World Cup debacle in the West Indies where India failed to progress beyond the group stages losing to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the BCCI scrapped the graded contracts system and even limited the number of endorsements to three that a player could do.

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