Indian cricket team has complained to its manager that it considers the lodging
arrangement in this venue for the second Test as completely rotten.
The squad is livid that ahead of the critical second Test with the series evenly
poised at nil-all, their accommodation in this city of mythical hero Robin Hood
is absolutely unacceptable.
The team has been lodged in a five-star hotel of the city but the specifications
of the room leaves much to be desired.
The eight-by-eight rooms are making even the movement of the cricketers inside
their rooms an arduous task.
Most of the cricketers, including Sachin Tendulkar, have been put up
on the seventh floor where the situation is particularly grim.
Somebody like Ramesh Powar finds himself suffocated in a room which
doesn't even have a window and ventilation is an issue in other rooms also.
All individual members of the Indian cricket team are carrying four and even
five luggage items on this specific tour.
There is a mandatory 'coffin', a kit bag and two suitcases full of clothes
which each and every member of the Indian team is carrying.
The rooms even don't have cupboards where cricketers can keep their clothes
or bags.
Team India, it is learnt, has asked manager and former
Test captain Chandu Borde to take up the matter with the England
and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) about the stifling situation.
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