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Throughout and after the tour of Australia, stories and sourced leaks from the Indian dressing room relating to gamers, coaches, relationships and different issues have grow to be more and more rampant. In the course of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, stories from the dressing room suggesting a tumultuous relationship between the teaching employees and the gamers created headlines, whereas publish the sequence, the 10-point diktat imposed by BCCI was additionally reported by journalists first. Now, the appointment of former home run machine Sitanshu Kotak as batting coach has additionally been reported earlier than any official announcement from the BCCI.
Talking on this, Aakash Chopra has urged the BCCI to be extra proactive, in order that rumours, stories and source-based leaks can reduce inside Indian cricket.
Among the stories have additionally been shut down by gamers and assist employees. The latest instance of this was Jasprit Bumrah, who took to social media to place to mattress a report that he had been suggested mattress relaxation to heal his again damage.
Alternatively, following the report of rift within the dressing room and the rumoured explanation for Ravichandran Ashwin’s retirement, head coach Gautam Gambhir had acknowledged that conversations held throughout the workforce ought to keep that approach.
Chopra, in the meantime, identified that Sitanshu Kotak was a person of strange idiosyncrasies.
“He (Kotak) used to stop when someone moved close to the sight screen or in the dressing room. He had a unique playing style as well. He was a run-machine. He used to irritate the opposing team a lot with his idiosyncrasies,” Chopra stated of Kotak.
Whereas he by no means performed for India, Kotak amassed over 8,000 first-class runs for Saurashtra.
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