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Cricket counties who met Lalit Modi in India earlier this year have denied speculation they were involved in secret talks to set up a parallel Indian Premier League in the UK.

England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke made a formal complaint to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), claiming the talks could prove "detrimental to Indian cricket, English cricket and world cricket at large”.

Clarke's accusations forced the BCCI to slap a second ‘show-cause notice’ notice on Modi in two weeks, after the board suspended him from all BCCI positions, including that of chairman of the IPL.

But Yorkshire chairman Colin Graves told the Guardian: "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.”.

Though Graves was not in Delhi at the meeting, Yorkshire's chief executive Stewart Regan met Modi, along with Colin Povey, the Warwickshire chief executive, and Lancashire committee member David Hodgkiss.

Regan told Cricinfo: "We attended that meeting in an educational capacity, as we wished to learn more about how the IPL has gone from nowhere to being one of the biggest sporting businesses in the world inside two years.

"The success of the IPL proves that cricket is a product that people want to buy and that sponsors want to get involved with, and those were the key learning areas that we were interested in. It would not be appropriate to comment any further."