Squad, Including Isolated Five, Will Travel To Sydney Together-Report -

PTI
Updated: January 3, 2021, 6:20 PM IST

The whole Indian cricket contingent, together with the 5 gamers who’re in precautionary isolation, will journey to Sydney for the third Test in opposition to Australia collectively in the identical chartered flight on Monday. The 5 gamers — vice-captain Rohit Sharma, opener Shubman Gill, stumper Rishabh Pant, pacer Navdeep Saini and batsman Prithvi Shaw — haven’t been barred from travelling with the crew regardless of an ongoing investigation into an alleged bio-security protocol breach by them.

“If you rigorously learn the CA assertion, they by no means mentioned that it is a breach. They mentioned that they’re looking for to find out if it is a breach.

“So there is no such thing as a restriction on these 5 gamers travelling with the crew to Sydney. The whole crew is flying tomorrow afternoon,” a senior BCCI official instructed PTI on situations of anonymity.It is known that the controversy has not gone down nicely with the travelling crew and it isn’t amused with how Cricket Australia has up to now dealt with the problem.

“Had the gentleman (the fan) in query not lied about hugging a participant (Rishabh Pant) on social media, this mess would not have occurred. The gamers had gone inside as a result of it was drizzling.”This guy, without permission, shot a video and then paid the bill which no one asked him to and after that for publicity put a screen grab of bill,” the official mentioned.

“You want to tell me that Cricket Australia will be taking a decision based on a purported video of a person who first lied and then retracted his statement,” he added.

What was Administrative Manager Girish Dongre’s position?

For BCCI, the person below scanner is administrative supervisor Girish Dongre. Dongre is an worker of the BCCI and is meant to deal with and likewise preserve the the crew abreast concerning the COVID-19 protocols.”The players are not supposed to carry the protocol sheets or remember every fine line written,” one other BCCI official mentioned.”There is a professional team of people who have to ensure that every rule is being followed and it was Dongre’s duty to ensure that players are told that they can’t get into an indoor area,” he added.