Xtra Time Web Desk: The five isolated Indian cricketers including Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw and Navdeep Saini will be travelling with the entire team to Sydney in the same chartered flight on Monday. The five cricketer have not been barred from travelling with the team despite an ongoing investigation into an alleged bio-security protocol breach by them.
Cricket Australia, in a media release on Saturday, said it is probing the matter jointly with the BCCI after a video of the players at an indoor restaurant was posted by a fan, who identified himself as Navaldeep Singh on Twitter.
‘If you carefully read the CA statement, they never said that it’s a breach. They said that they are seeking to determine if it’s a breach.
‘So there is no restriction on these five players travelling with the team to Sydney. The entire team is flying tomorrow afternoon,’ a senior BCCI official told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
It is understood that the controversy has not gone down well with the travelling team and it is not amused with how Cricket Australia has so far handled the issue.
The role of administrative manager Girish Dongre is in question following the controversial incident. Dongre, who is an employee of the BCCI is supposed to handle and also keep the the team abreast about the COVID-19 protocols.