Players of India stuck at traffic jam ahead of their net session at Oval

India is a country full of metropolitan cities and traffic jam is so common that it has become a national phenomenon. Places like Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi have long never-ending queues and common people are stuck in traffic for hours at a stretch sometimes. Indian players by now might have been used to the grills of the traffic problem in India due to lack of infrastructure and overpopulation.

But when it comes it megacities such as London, a common traveller is subjected to a smooth ride more often than not and a traffic jam with no movement for about 50 minutes is a special occasion in a country like the United Kingdom.

The Indian team bus, while on their way to the Oval stadium, was stuck in a traffic jam for about 50 minutes so much so that the players were unaware about when and how vehicular moment got stalled. The centre of the ruckus was far away from their bus was stalled. It was later found out the entire mayhem was caused due to a fatal accident which took place in London.

Team Manager clueless about the incidence

The security team had no immediate inkling when the road would clear. The bus, after the halt, took a U-turn and returned to the Royal Garden Hotel on the Kensington High Street before taking the other route to the stadium. “We had no idea what happened and we had to go back to the hotel from where we took another road,” said the team manager according to Mumbai Mirror. Neeraj Kumar, India’s anti-corruption and security chief, has been with the side and satisfied with the arrangements made for the team

“Here, they depend on intelligence. In India, we have a tendency to park a dozen armed personnel to guard a place or a person. If the threat perception is serious, we place a battalion. They operate differently here by depending on the intelligence network, which is no less effective,” quoted Neeraj Kumar.