Srinagar: BCC is not taking anything lightly these days and want to enforce guidelines framed recently in a strict manner which is affecting Team India coach Gautam Gambhir badly.
BCCI recently framed 10-point diktat that gets into affect from the ICC Champions Trophy. The guidelines were framed after Team India disastrous campaign in Australia which also pointed out to divided dressing room.
According to the BCCI’s new rules, the personal assistants or managers of support staff are no longer allowed to travel with the senior players in the team bus, nor are they allowed to accompany the players or support staff in the same hotel.
Gambhir’s personal assistant, who was close to the India coach throughout the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, faced BCCI’s stick after the tour.
“The personal secretary of a member of the coaching staff, who was regularly seen staying at the team hotel, now stays at a different facility even though he has been seen at every venue during the England home series,” a PTI report has claimed.
Gambhir was the only coaching staff during the Australia tour who had a personal assistant. The coach can no longer have the same setup, as the board has officially enforced its new ruling.
“Why was his PA sitting in the car specified for national selectors? They can’t even discuss things in private with an unknown third person in the car. Why was he allotted space in the BCCI’s hospitality box in Adelaide?” an irritated BCCI official had told the news agency after the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
“How did he have breakfast in the cordoned-off area of a five-star facility that is just earmarked for the team members?” the BCCI official had asked.
As a result of the BCCI diktat, the players would not be allowed to have their family members, wives or partners accompany them during the Champions Trophy. In a case where an exception is made, the player would himself have to bear the cost of the family’s travel. Such measures weren’t apparently in place before.