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“Some abuse would have happened, that’s why the rule is being talked about” – Aakash Chopra comments on the BCCI’s new rules
By SMCS - Jan 18, 2025 10:40 am
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Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has added that the BCCI forcing the team to travel together for practice and matches shows that the rule may have been abused. He also stated that such a process has been followed forever as well. Notably,  India lost 1-3 in and against Australia in the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 as well.

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In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Players cannot travel separately with families. All players are expected to travel with the team to and from matches and practice sessions. I am extremely surprised by this rule as to why did it come. Going for practice or the match is with the team only. There is a time to leave the hotel. Then you are together on the ground and everyone leaves together after practice. This has been happening forever. If someone wants to practice more, he requests the coach, but someone leaving early, is something like that also happening? Some abuse would have happened, that’s why the rule is being talked about.”

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In the same video, Aakash Chopra said that all players wouldn’t have been traveling separately and shared that Yashasvi Jaiswal’s reported
incident was a different issue as well.

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Team India thrashes Australia in Perth

“I am pretty sure everyone wouldn’t have been doing that. Yashasvi Jaiswal couldn’t reach recently. He got late. You get punishment when you are late. Then you are asked to take a taxi and pay the fare, and get a punishment apart from that. That’s a separate story. However, if someone is saying that he has come with his family and will meet the team at the practice session as he is not staying in the team hotel but elsewhere, that he has his bungalow or it’s his city, then why should he travel with the team, please go and find out whoever allowed it and call that person out,” Aakash Chopra concluded.