Former India batsman Ashok Malhotra, now president of the Indian Cricketers’ Association (ICA), has said that he is “finding it very difficult to work in this space” as he feels restricted by the four ICA directors.

The directors, Malhotra says, have asked him not to make any public statements without discussing issues internally. But he alleges that they have been leaking correspondence with him to the media.

“Sometimes I don’t understand how other boards of directors do things. You cannot keep telling me about the rules and regulations. I don’t know why stories were planted in the media that I spoke against domestic cricket and Bihar cricket. And on top of that four directors sent me an email, that I cannot go public. The email was leaked in the media,” Malhotra told the press.  

This comes after Malhotra had posted a video, lamenting what he called the BCCI’s lukewarm response to ICA demands.

That allegedly didn’t go down well with the four directors — Hitesh Majmudar, V Krishnaswamy, Yajurvindra Singh and Rajesh Nayyar — who, he says, jointly sent an email, asking the president to follow the Companies Act and adhere to the process before making any statement.