NZ players' body thwarts India's practice place

The chance for Rahul Dravid and company to get some practice ahead of the Test series against New Zealand has run into rough weather after the Players' Association has put its foot down on adding one more foreigner to the existing one in the state championship.

New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan had said efforts are on to tag the six Indians to the teams for the state championship which has met with protest from the country's Players' Association. "Dravid and Co are penciled in to play the State Championship round that runs from March 6 till March 9.

"Which side they played in would either be a contestable process or made by random allocation," Vaughan had
earlier said.