India’s former off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said on Friday, January 17, that the BCCI’s 10 new policies for players with central contracts on their playing days have been in place since and they want to know when and who “changed” them.
Terming the guidelines as a “new document”, Harbhajan said the move was an attempt to deflect attention from the team’s recent poor performances against New Zealand and Australia.
Days after India’s 1-3 defeat in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the BCCI has issued 10 new guidelines to promote “discipline and unity”, including domestic cricket. Cricket), restricting the presence of family and personal staff on tours, and banning personal commercial endorsements during the series.
For Harbhajan, all these measures seemed to be rehashing old rules. He said let me make this clear first. When I was reading the travel policy document as reported by the media, I did not find anything new in it. At least 9 points out of 10, including family travel duration, same hotel stay, practice time, are all the same.
Questioning this, Harbhajan said that my question is that if these rules were applicable in my time, then who changed them and when? This needs to be investigated. We are digressing from the issue. We didn’t lose 1-3 because the wives and partners were there for two months. We didn’t lose because someone was traveling differently. We lost because we played poor cricket. We didn’t bat well at home either.