The IPL franchisee Deccan Chargers has sent a legal notice to BCCI and IPL and threatened to pull out of the third edition of twenty 20 tournament starting from 12th March, over the shifting of venues from Hyderabad.

''Our client has made all arrangements at exorbitant cost for playing matches in Hyderabad as per the original schedule. If the venue is shifted now, it will cause heavy financial losses," as per the legal notice slapped by the franchise.

Indian Premier League had moved matches scheduled for these two cities to other cities citing security concerns but the franchise sent a legal notice through its solicitors saying their ''client regrets to note that the decision have been taken arbitrarily, unilaterally, without the client's consent and in complete breach of the franchise agreement dated April 10, 2008.''

The defending champion has asked to revoke the decision and re allot its home matches back to Hyderabad and Vishakhapatnam. IPL shifted the matches in the wake of the Telangana crisis in Andhra Pradesh to Navi Mumbai and Nagpur.

The franchise chairman V Shankar said, ''If the IPL believes that Andhra is not safe then let me ask this. How safe is Maharashtra?"