“Families should be traveling”: Cheteshwar Pujara Puts BCCI’s Diktat Under The Scanner Again

The Diktat of the Cricket Control Council in India (BCCI) on the limited access of family members at the TEAM hotel during the tour was widely criticized. After the tour in Australia, where India lost 1-3, the BCCI published a 10-point guideline limited to the time that families were authorized to spend with the players during a foreign tour. However, recently, Virat Kohli expressed his disappointment and stressed the importance that players have their loved ones close to them in high pressure situations – especially during visits abroad.

Chetehwar Pujara also supports Kohli in this regard.

“I would say that families should travel. They should be with the players, the window. I mean, there are times when families are there throughout the series. You as a player, you know, professionally, you want to attend your training sessions. So there must be a window,” said Pujara on First post.

“Normally, what most teams are doing is that they have a window of two or three weeks on a long tour. So, if you move away from your home for 40 days, three weeks ago when families can travel. So, it is the best way to balance it, because there are moments when coaching staff or management he considers if families travel, so players are not sufficiently concentrated,” he added. “

“But just to balance it, I think that if you have an appropriate window where families can travel and at the same time, if you go there early for the preparation, players simply focus on the preparation game. And then when it starts, you have a three -week window where families can travel,” said Pujara.

During the recently concluded champions trophy, players like Virat Kohli, Ravi will Ravira Jadeja and Mohammed Shami had their families with them in Dubai but did not stay at the Team hotel. The expenses of their stay was carried by the players, not by the BCCI.