India to play three match ODI series against South Africa in Ireland

Mumbai, Apr 12 (UNI) India will clash with South Africa in a best of three ODI series in June-end in Ireland, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced here today.

''We were only negotiating with Cricket Australia initially for the off-shore series. We have now decided to have the series against South Africa at the end of June in Ireland,'' BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said here today.

Shah brushed aside reports that the originally planned India-Australia series had fallen through because Cricket Australia asked for an equal share of the revenue from the event.

''We were only having talks with Cricket Australia and nothing was finalised. Now we have finalised the series against South Africa,'' he explained.

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