During India\u2019s tour to Australia for the 2020-21 Border Gavaskar series, a fan\u2019s video on social media aroused uproar when five key members of the touring team were seen eating inside a Melbourne restaurant, apparently in breach of Covid rules. \u00a0The event garnered a lot of criticism from the community.<\/p>\n
Rohit Sharma<\/a>, Rishabh Pant<\/a>, Shubman Gill<\/a>, Prithvi Shaw<\/a>, and Navdeep Saini<\/a> were photographed entering a Sydney restaurant, where they were accused of breaking Covid guidelines. The five Indian players were singled out by the Australian media as violators. All of the allegations were eventually refuted by the BCCI.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Tim Paine<\/a> has attacked Indian players, accusing them of being \u201cselfish\u201d and suggesting that they would risk the entire series for a bowl of Nando\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean those four or five guys put the whole Test series at risk. For what? For a bowl a Nando\u2019s chips or wherever they went, like I just find that pretty selfish to be honest,\u201d former Australia skipper Pain said on Voot Select\u2019s docu-series \u2018Bandon Me Tha Dum\u2019.<\/p>\n However, Ajinkya Rahane<\/a>, who was filling in for India skipper Virat Kohli<\/a> at the time, stated that the report was unfounded and that the players were simply waiting for their \u2018takeaway order\u2019 inside the eatery. As a preventive measure, the five players were kept in isolation. Players who tested negative for Covid-19 were cleared to participate in the following Test.<\/p>\n The youthful India team was led by\u00a0Ajinkya Rahane, who battered the hosts. The Test series, which was full of extravagance, action, and a comeback, also had its fair share of drama, especially leading up to the third Test in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tim Paine, a former Australian captain, has blasted the Indian players for allegedly breaching the bio-bubble during the Border-Gavaskar trophy series in 2021. He said that their actions almost jeopardised the entire series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1088,869,905,324,230,466],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-border-gavaskar-trophy","tag-navdeep-saini","tag-prithvi-shaw","tag-rishabh-pant","tag-shubman-gill","tag-tim-paine"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}