The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) requested the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) to replace Pune as the venue with Eden Gardens as according the board's rotation policy Kolkata is scheduled to host a match after Pune. Interestingly the request came a day after the CAB elected Prasun Mukherjee, the Kolkata Police Commissioner, as its new president following the resignation of Jagmohan Dalmiya who was banned for life by the BCCI for misuse of funds.

Dalmiya and the current BCCI administration had been on opposite sides at the last board elections in which Sharad Pawar, the current president of the BCCI, came to power. The BCCI stopped all subsidies and grants to the CAB after Dalmiya's alleged misappropriation of funds.

Mukherjee confirmed that Shashank Manohar, the BCCI vice-president, had asked the CAB whether they were prepared to host the match and that the CAB had requested the board to forward a formal offer in this regard. "Then we can take a decision," Mukherjee told PTI.