Reports: Cracks emerge in Team India's dressing room, players did not celebrate Perth Test win together
There have been widespread rumors doing the rounds regarding the unstable environment in the Indian dressing room of late.
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Team India's ongoing tour of Australia does not seem to get any easier for them. Barring the underwhelming performances of the red-ball side, there have been intensified rumours of there being a rift in the dressing room. This comes around the time after the recent news on the leaks from the dressing room and Rohit Sharma "opting out" of featuring in the fifth and final Test was revealed.
According to recent reports, the discord in the dressing room was not a development which initiated in the recent past. As per renowned journalist, Bharat Sundaresan, it is being disclosed that the unease was present as early as the series opener in Perth. For the unversed, India won the first Test of the ongoing series by a whopping 295-run margin, a historic achievement they achieved under Jasprit Bumrah's captaincy. However, it is being reported that the team opted not to celebrate the victory together. This was even after one of the senior support staff members offered their credit card for the team to cover the expenses.
"After the Perth win, such a significant win in the history of Indian cricket, the fact that they didn’t celebrate that as a team and went their own ways didn’t tell me it was a broken dressing room. But it was a dressing room where there are different cliques, generationally and otherwise, who are just doing their own things," Sundaresan told Channel 7.
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"This, I am told, is despite one of the senior support staff members saying, 'here, I will put in my credit card, let’s all order some drinks, stick together.' But that was not meant to be. I thought a win like that would bring things together and energise this as one collective. As we’ve seen, as the series has gone on, it took that one bad loss in Melbourne - where it was one bad session, and they lost a Test match they fought hard in - for those simmering uncertainties, not really tensions, to surface and become public," he further added.
"The Indian Express article for me was just a trigger of the simmering uncertainty..."@beastieboy07 on all the reports coming out of the Indian camp over the last couple of days, and what he's heard... #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/SpX02eLT5q
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 2, 2025
Grapevine communication affecting team's think tank
According to multiple previous reports, it is also alleged that decisions within the team were not taken unanimously and that there were a couple of players eyeing themselves as captains for the near future. With the Sydney Test meaning so much for the Indian team, it will be interesting to see how the side keeps their composure and blocks out the external noise to concentrate on their performances in as unfazed a manner in the ongoing series.
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