Port-Of-Spain (Trinidad), May 12 (PTI) In the midst of concerns about player burnout, BCCI and the West Indies Cricket Board have decided to play an unscheduled one-day international series in the United States and Canada later this year.

The series would be organised almost immediately after India complete a five-match ODI and a four-Test tour of the Caribbean in early July and would be outside the Future Tours Programme unveiled by the ICC earlier this week.

Since India are to tour Sri Lanka in the first half of August, this series, comprising three to five matches, is more likely to be held in September.

September was otherwise a month when the Indian team had no international engagements.

The matches would form a part of a bilateral agreement reached between the two Boards at the recent ICC meeting in Dubai, a West Indies Cricket Board statement said.

The WICB revealed the deal was signed between its President Ken Gordon and BCCI representative IS Bindra on April 29.

Surprisingly, BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said in Mumbai the series was yet to be finalised.

"The two boards are in talks, which are still in preliminary stage, to hold two or three bilateral ODIs in Northern America in September before the Champions Trophy," he told PTI.

Shah said the tournament would be given the final seal of approval when it meets WICB officials in June. PTI