New Delhi: In another twist to the row over cricket rights, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday informed the Supreme Court that TV coverage of India's domestic series with Australia and South Africa in the coming months would be produced by it with live feed to Prasar Bharati for domestic viewers and international telecast rights to "somebody else".

"We will produce the TV coverage of the matches of the cricket series starting from October 6, including the India-South Africa series that follow immediately thereafter," K K Venugopal, counsel for Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) submitted before the Court during the hearing of a petition filed by Zee TV challenging Board's decision to cancel allotment of telecast rights in its favour.

"Prasar Bharati will do the live telecast for the domestic viewers and the international telecast rights will be given to 'somebody else'," Venugopal said when the Court asked him to respond to the Zee TV's allegation that the Board had cancelled the contract in a malafide manner "to benefit a particular Sports channel".

A Bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde, Justice B P Singh and Justice S B Sinha, meanwhile, issued notice to the Centre, BCCI, ESPN-Star and Price Water Cooper Ltd and posted it for hearing on Tuesday before a five-Judge constitution Bench taking note of the important questions of law raised by the petitioner.

Board had on September 21 cancelled the entire tender process in which Zee had emerged as the highest bidder for telecast of all cricket matches played in India for the next four years.

Appearing for Zee TV, senior advocate Harish Salve contended that the Indian channel's emergence in the sports had ruffled many a feathers as prior to this it was the monopoly of Singapore-based ESPN-Star.

He said that after the contract was awarded to Zee on the basis of a tender and subsequent bidding, in which the Indian channel emerged as the highest bidder, the Board even accepted 20 million dollars as the first instalment of the 308 million dollar contract for the four year period telecast rights.

Zee contended that the cancellation of the contract was not on the ground that it was in the interest of the game but "to benefit one particular sports channel".

Salve said that BCCI had filed an affidavit before the Bombay High Court supporting Zee but later went on to cancel the contract.

Venugopal, replying to the allegations, said that the Board was left with no option but to cancel the tender process as the date of the matches were drawing near and that it was convinced that the High Court litigation would go on jeopardising India's interest in hosting the cricket matches.

"We were faced with two letters - one from the Australian Cricket Board and the other from International Cricket Council - both reminding us the consequences of not having live telecast of the matches," he said and added that BCCI had cancelled the tender process in accordance with the rules.