MUMBAI, JAN 20: The Indian cricket team's return from New Zealand has been kept a closely guarded secret in view of the attack on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters here and threats held out to the cricketers.``The place of arrival of the Indian team is not known and it has been kept a secret,'' informed Sharad Diwadkar, the BCCI executive secretary while speaking to The Indian Express this evening. ``As per the original schedule the team was to land at Mumbai on Thursday evening. However, there has been a change in the arrival plans. The BCCI secretary Jaywant Lele has informed me about the decision following which I have cancelled the players' hotel bookings here and their air tickets to their respective destinations from Mumbai,'' he said. The team is at present camping in Hong Kong, he added.
Meanwhile, the BCCI office which was ransacked by vandals on Monday, will start functioning from tomorrow. ``I have hired typewriters, fax machines etc and it would be businessas usual from tomorrow,'' disclosed Diwadkar. He said that the decision to shift the office to Calcutta has not been conveyed to him officially. ``I have not yet been apprised of the execution of the transfer. As the executive secretary, I would have to work out the modalities of the transfer once I receive the go ahead signal from the BCCI,'' he added.
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