SYDNEY: The Indian cricket staff wasn’t precisely happy with the after-practice menu on Tuesday and some members determined to have meals again of their resort rooms.
It’s understood that the after-practice menu is sort of the identical for all groups and Indian gamers aren’t being supplied with sizzling meals, which in line with BCCI sources is a should after an intense coaching session.
The Indian staff had an non-obligatory coaching session on Tuesday the place all of the quick bowlers had been rested alongside all-rounder Hardik Pandya, batter Suryakumar Yadav and spinner Axar Patel.
It’s learnt that the after-practice meals included customized sandwiches together with fruits and falafel (quite common on this a part of the world).
With the coaching getting over almost by afternoon, it was lunch time and maybe gamers had been anticipating a full course meal.
“It is not like several boycott… Some gamers did decide up fruits and falafel however everybody wished to have lunch and therefore they’d meals going again to the resort,” a BCCI official aware of the event informed PTI on the situation of anonymity.
“The issue is that the ICC is not offering any sizzling meals after lunch. In a bilateral sequence, the host affiliation is answerable for catering they usually all the time present sizzling Indian meals after a coaching session. However for ICC, the rule is identical for all international locations,” the official additional stated.
“You’ll be able to’t simply have a chilly sandwich (not even grilled) with avocado, tomato and cucumber after two hours of coaching. That’s plain and easy insufficient nourishment,” he added.
It is going to be attention-grabbing if BCCI steps in and arranges for warm Indian meals for the approaching coaching periods.