{"id":18792,"date":"2021-01-06T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18792"},"modified":"2021-01-06T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:14:30","slug":"tensions-spike-as-india-coach-refuses-to-don-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18792","title":{"rendered":"Tensions spike as India coach refuses to don mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#x27;s touring party are continuing to test the patience of Cricket Australia amid the COVID-19 crisis, with coach Ravi Shastri today striding through the Sydney Cricket Ground gates unmasked for his side&#x27;s training session.<\/p>\n<p>Every player of India&#x27;s squad wore a mask but Shastri refused, walking defiantly past security guards and into his team&#x27;s change-rooms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/indian-cricket-bubble-breach-rohit-sharma-rishabh-pant-shubman-gill-navdeep-saini-prithvi-shaw\/3f868b7d-6b78-4526-bab3-0a428cd5e5a9\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"India first landed themselves in trouble when Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, Navdeep Saini and Prithvi Shaw were filmed eating at a Melbourne restaurant on New Year&#x27;s Day\">India first landed themselves in trouble when Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, Navdeep Saini and Prithvi Shaw were filmed eating at a Melbourne restaurant on New Year&#x27;s Day<\/a>, breaching Cricket Australia&#x27;s strict biosecurity protocols.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/australia-v-india-test-series-india-players-return-negative-test-results-after-covid-bubble-breach\/66767350-2ef5-40cd-9e3e-a15ede02c584\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Every one of the five players then tested negative to COVID-19, but the fact they had gone tantalisingly close to a Juice Boost kiosk at which a coronavirus-positive employee had recently worked served as a serious wake-up call\">Every one of the five players then tested negative to COVID-19, but the fact they had gone tantalisingly close to a Boost Juice kiosk at which a coronavirus-positive employee had recently worked served as a serious wake-up call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"81d91228-1bef-4a64-b487-5b2bb4395182\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/81d91228-1bef-4a64-b487-5b2bb4395182\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/virat-kohli-and-hardik-pandya-covid-bubble-breach-during-odi-series-india-vs-australia\/8154c648-7547-4569-8613-f76f9be295fc\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"It was then revealed on Tuesday India captain Virat Kohli and teammate Hardik Pandya had paid a visit to a toddler&#x27;s store in Sydney on December 7\">It was then revealed on Tuesday India captain Virat Kohli and teammate Hardik Pandya had paid a visit to a baby store in Sydney on December 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They even posed for a photo in the shop with members of the public without wearing masks.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli and Pandya were about to return to India after the completion of the T20 series against Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/virat-kohli-to-miss-test-matches-in-australia-will-return-to-india-on-paternity-leave\/8935f245-b837-4eeb-b596-d3e263be08b7\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"with Kohli ending the tour early because of the birth of his first child\">with Kohli ending the tour early because of the birth of his first child<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d40a9688-0a2a-41dc-bfba-1c401fe7e19f\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d40a9688-0a2a-41dc-bfba-1c401fe7e19f\" alt=\"Virat Kohli Hardik Pandya\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further intensifying Cricket Australia&#x27;s frustration with India is the fact they don&#x27;t want the fourth Test to be played at The Gabba because of the strict quarantine they would face.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed figure in India&#x27;s camp says they are being treated like &quot;animals at the zoo&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ian-chappell-praises-india-recovery-after-adelaide-disaster-kohli-exit-rahane-century\/934cdae7-94cf-44a7-8b2b-2a3034e91bce\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"stand-in India captain Ajinkya Rahane\">stand-in India captain Ajinkya Rahane<\/a> today refused to confirm whether his side would fly to Brisbane for the final Test.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We as players &#8211; we are just focusing on this Test match. The Indian team management &#8211; they will take the decisions,&quot; Rahane said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For us as players, it&#x27;s all about giving our best on the field.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Test match is starting tomorrow, so we are just focusing on that and we want to do well.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted Australia haven&#x27;t lost a Test at The Gabba since 1988 and India have never won there, prompting many to question the real reason for India&#x27;s reluctance to travel to Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>India&#x27;s touring party are continuing to test the patience of Cricket Australia amid the COVID-19 crisis, with coach Ravi Shastri today striding through the Sydney <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18792\" title=\"Tensions spike as India coach refuses to don mask\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18794,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18792\/revisions\/18794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}