Yorkshire are one of three counties in the middle of a row between the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and deposed Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi.

ECB chairman Giles Clarke has accused Modi of negotiating a parallel IPL in England with three English counties behind his back.

White Rose chief executive Stewart Regan met Modi, alongside representatives of Lancashire and Warwickshire, in Delhi at the end of March while on a fact-finding mission to India.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have issued a show-cause notice to Modi, ordering him to explain all after Clarke complained.

But Yorkshire are insistent that they have done nothing wrong. The club's chairman Colin Graves has been reported as saying: "This is totally overblown. It was a fact-finding mission.

"Lalit Modi did not put a proposition on the table. There were no secret proposals, no secret agenda, nothing underhand,” he insisted.

“The IPL has been extraordinarily successful, and we can learn a lot from it. There was a proper business discussion about how things might develop in the future, the sort of discussions that can benefit the whole of English cricket.

"Stewart Regan took notes of the meeting then forwarded them to all the Test grounds. I then passed those notes to Giles Clarke.

"Lalit Modi invited all representatives of the Test grounds to be his personal guests at the IPL final. We turned the invitation down as we were not in a position to discuss anything in detail."

It is alleged that Modi offered each county involved a minimum of US$3-5 million per annum, plus a $1.5m staging agreement for a venture structured in an identical way to the current IPL model.

And, while Graves also denied this, he did say: "If anybody puts anything on the table, we will discuss it. We have nine Test grounds and only seven Tests a year. We have to find ways to fill these grounds outside the England team.

"There is no future in us creating another Twenty20 competition for all 18 counties. It is not attractive enough to fill the Test grounds.

"We have to create something new and exciting, a tournament with the appeal of IPL, a British version. We will continue to put these ideas to Giles.”

Modi was recently suspended as the chairman of the IPL after 'alleged acts of individual misdemeanours', effectively ending a turbulent three years in charge of league.

Meanwhile, Yorkshire continue their Clydesdale Bank 40 Group B campaign against Derbyshire at Headingley on Sunday. The White Rose have won their opening two matches of the competition.