Indian players hope some give and take will apply with ICC

India's cricketers are hopeful that a compromise can be reached that will allow them to meet the sponsorship requirements for the World Cup starting next month.

Contract issues had not previously been referred to on the tour but at today's pre-match press conference before tomorrow's sixth National Bank Series one-day match against New Zealand at Eden Park in Auckland, India's captain Sourav Ganguly said the side had been in touch with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over the matter.

"We are in contact with the BCCI, they've told ICC what is our problem and given our terms and conditions in certain areas.

"We all feel at the end of the day there has to be an adjustment from both sides. It can never be one-sided, whether it is the players or the ICC," Ganguly said.

"We've made our statement clear to them that this is what we can do and this is what we can't do. Now the rest is up to them."

He didn't think there was any potential for conflict so close to the World Cup because a similar thing happened when they were in England last year before the ICC Champions Trophy and the players had decided to co-operate fully.

They did so thinking that there would be time after the Champions Trophy to sort it out.

"But the situations have been the same. There are certain restrictions on us because we have our existing contracts which are illegal to break so we've let them know that.

"So now it depends on them to come to a solution. But I feel there has got to be a bit of adjustment from both the sides which we are ready to do and which I hope ICC are ready to do," he said.