India agrees to play on in Test series

India's troubled cricket tour of Australia is back on track after a day of tense negotiations resulted in the tourists last night agreeing to fulfil their commitments.
But the backdown came only after India pressured International Cricket Council chief executive Malcolm Speed into axing umpire Steve Bucknor for next week's third Test.

The ICC also agreed to India's request to appeal against the three-match suspension handed to Harbhajan Singh for calling Australian Andrew Symonds a monkey during the Sydney Test.

Speed revealed yesterday a senior judge from one of 16 cricketing countries would be appointed to hear Harbhajan's appeal against a racism conviction as soon as possible.

Speed said he had summoned a peacemaker – chief referee Ranjan Madugalle of Sri Lanka – to counsel the captains of the two warring teams, Ricky Ponting and Anil Kumble.

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