The BCCI had to lodge a complaint with the ICC after the Indian cricket team and their staff were served ‘cold food’ in their hotel in Sydney, forcing the players to skip lunch at the hotel and order online.
A day before India’s Super 12 round match against Zimbabwe, it was reported that there wasn’t adequate food and whatever was there was not hot enough for the players after the practice session in Sydney, leaving the Indian players unhappy.
“BCCI has told ICC that food provided after practice is inadequate. BCCI has further told ICC – How can you give cold sandwiches after 3 hours of practice for lunch? Sandwiches are not even made, players have to make their own sandwiches. This is not acceptable to us. Problem was in Melbourne and now Sydney. ICC had promised to look into it but hot food is the basic. Why wasn’t it looked at earlier?” sources in the know of developments said.
“There’s inadequate food for players after practice. They had to get food delivered for lunch via Uber/deliveroo which is not acceptable.”
Indian fan trolls ICC like a boss over this food issue
During the India-Netherlands game on Thursday at the Sydney Cricket Ground, an Indian cricket team fan trolled the ICC hilariously with a poster.
This fan brought a poster that read: “HOME MADE TIFFIN SERVICE AVAILABLE FOR INDIAN CRICKET TEAM”
See the images here;
— Out Of Context Cricket (@GemsOfCricket) October 27, 2022
About the match, India overcame the initial struggle with the bat to defeat the Netherlands by 56 runs, and take the first position in the Group with two wins in as many games and also boosted their NRR to +1.425.
KL Rahul was dismissed in the third over of the innings. But Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli did the rebuilding job in a partnership of 73 (56). Rohit Sharma hit a half-century (53 off 39) and before Suryakumar Yadav blasted 51* off 25 balls with Virat Kohli anchoring the innings and scoring 62* off 44 balls.
India were clinical with the ball. Spinners Axar Patel and R Ashwin and pacers Arshdeep Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar all took two wickets each while Mohammed Shami snapped a solitary scalp. Suryakumar Yadav was named the Player of the Match.
India will next take on South Africa on Sunday in Perth
