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In the wake of India’s poor 2024-25 Test marketing campaign, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is reportedly seeking to introduce some powerful guidelines. Until now, gamers’ households, particularly wives freedom over their stays for lengthy excursions however the Indian board is now set to make some drastic adjustments. As per a report, the BCCI feels that gamers’ performances on abroad excursions get affected negatively in the event that they stick with their households for lengthy durations. Hence, the board desires to re-introduce a rule that existed earlier than 2019, limiting households’ time with gamers.
According to a report in Dainik Jagran, the BCCI would solely enable households, particularly wives, to stick with gamers for 2 weeks throughout the course of a 45-day tour. Not simply that, each participant can be required to journey within the group bus with the opposite members of the squad. Lone journey can even be discouraged by the board.
The BCCI has additionally tightened screws in opposition to head coach Gautam Gambhir and his supervisor Gaurav Arora. Neither would Gambhir’s supervisor be allowed to remain within the group resort, nor he can be permitted to be seated within the VIP field at stadiums. The supervisor would neither be allowed to accompany Gambhir within the group bus nor the bus behind it.
The report has additionally said that in air journey, the BCCI would chorus from paying for gamers’ baggage if the burden exceeds 150kg. The gamers can be requested to bear that price themselves.
India’s Test & ODI captain Rohit Sharma, head coach Gautam Gambhir, and choice committee chief Ajit Agarkar met BCCI’s high bosses, together with the newly-appointed secretary and treasurer in a gathering the place these issues had been reportedly mentioned.
The way forward for veteran stars, together with Virat Kohli and Rohit, in addition to the tenure of Gambhir’s teaching employees, had been among the many high topics to be mentioned throughout the meet.
It was additionally instructed that the tenure of assist employees within the group ought to be restricted to a few years. The BCCI bosses really feel the performances have plateaued as sure assist employees members have been with the group for fairly a very long time.
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