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Boxing Day tensions rise again after India’s latest media stunt at the MCG
The tension between Indian cricketers and Australian journalists are on the rise again after a strange and frosty media conference at the MCG on Saturday.
India’s Ravindra Jadeja faced reporters but the Australian media were bemused and confused when the star allrounder refused to answer questions in English.
It was obviously an annoying situation for the journalists who made the effort to turn up, and comes just days after Indian legend Virat Kohli’s blow-up at Melbourne Airport.
In that heated exchanged, Kohli was frustrated by the cameras and took aim at a TV reporter.
At the MCG on Saturday, India’s media team pointed to reporters who were allowed to ask questions, and even acknowledged a few Australian journalists.
But Jadeja only responded in his native language.
The press conference was then wrapped up when he told the journalists that he had to get the bus.
Afterwards, India’s media team said the conference was for “travelling Indian media only”, even though Australian media was invited.
India has been particularly fickle with the media during this series, however, this is the first time they have not spoken in English at a press conference.
The tension has been bubbling away from the very start of the series when India coach Gautam Gambhir told Aussie legend Ricky Ponting to mind his own business.
Gambhir was upset after Ponting made some observations about the deteriorating form of beloved Indian legend Virat Kohli and the team’s captain, Rohit Sharma.
Indian players then refused to talk to the media in the build-up to the Perth Test.
Things exploded in Melbourne however, when Kohli lashed out at the airport.
Kohli appeared to be upset by the presence of cameras directed at his family.
After a tense conversation with a TV reporter, Kohli walked off before turning back and having a few more words.
“It was upon seeing the waiting cameras that Kohli became a little heated over what is largely a misunderstanding when he thought the media was filming him with his children,” Channel 7 reporter Theo Doropoulos said on 7NEWS.
Kohli said he could not be filmed without permission, however, that’s not true given he was in a public place.
He did take a minute to clear the air with media once it was explained his kids in fact weren’t being filmed and even shook the Channel 7 cameraman’s hand.
Kohli has struggled for form in recent years, but did making a fighting century in the first Test in Perth.
However, his four other bats have combined for a total of just 26 runs.
The Border-Gavaskar series is delicately poised at 1-1 after the third Test in Brisbane was a draw.
The crucial fourth Test begins on Boxing Day at the MCG before the gripping series heads to Sydney for the final Test.
SOURCE: https://7news.com.au/sport/cricket/...atest-media-stunt-at-the-mcg--c-17158717?s=08
The tension between Indian cricketers and Australian journalists are on the rise again after a strange and frosty media conference at the MCG on Saturday.
India’s Ravindra Jadeja faced reporters but the Australian media were bemused and confused when the star allrounder refused to answer questions in English.
It was obviously an annoying situation for the journalists who made the effort to turn up, and comes just days after Indian legend Virat Kohli’s blow-up at Melbourne Airport.
In that heated exchanged, Kohli was frustrated by the cameras and took aim at a TV reporter.
At the MCG on Saturday, India’s media team pointed to reporters who were allowed to ask questions, and even acknowledged a few Australian journalists.
But Jadeja only responded in his native language.
The press conference was then wrapped up when he told the journalists that he had to get the bus.
Afterwards, India’s media team said the conference was for “travelling Indian media only”, even though Australian media was invited.
India has been particularly fickle with the media during this series, however, this is the first time they have not spoken in English at a press conference.
The tension has been bubbling away from the very start of the series when India coach Gautam Gambhir told Aussie legend Ricky Ponting to mind his own business.
Gambhir was upset after Ponting made some observations about the deteriorating form of beloved Indian legend Virat Kohli and the team’s captain, Rohit Sharma.
Indian players then refused to talk to the media in the build-up to the Perth Test.
Things exploded in Melbourne however, when Kohli lashed out at the airport.
Kohli appeared to be upset by the presence of cameras directed at his family.
After a tense conversation with a TV reporter, Kohli walked off before turning back and having a few more words.
“It was upon seeing the waiting cameras that Kohli became a little heated over what is largely a misunderstanding when he thought the media was filming him with his children,” Channel 7 reporter Theo Doropoulos said on 7NEWS.
Kohli said he could not be filmed without permission, however, that’s not true given he was in a public place.
He did take a minute to clear the air with media once it was explained his kids in fact weren’t being filmed and even shook the Channel 7 cameraman’s hand.
Kohli has struggled for form in recent years, but did making a fighting century in the first Test in Perth.
However, his four other bats have combined for a total of just 26 runs.
The Border-Gavaskar series is delicately poised at 1-1 after the third Test in Brisbane was a draw.
The crucial fourth Test begins on Boxing Day at the MCG before the gripping series heads to Sydney for the final Test.
SOURCE: https://7news.com.au/sport/cricket/...atest-media-stunt-at-the-mcg--c-17158717?s=08
