India Brisbane boycott reports raise tensions ahead of third Test | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Sunday
June 11, 2023

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023
India Brisbane boycott reports raise tensions ahead of third Test

Sports

Reuters
06 January, 2021, 04:35 pm
Last modified: 06 January, 2021, 04:39 pm

Related News

  • Kohli holds firm against Australia in thrilling WTC final
  • Was Green's catch clean? Here's what the ICC rule says
  • ICC issues important notice about reserve day after loss of overs in Test Championship final
  • Australia heap misery on India in World Test Championship final
  • Steve Waugh not happy with Rohit, Dravid after India's batting collapse

India Brisbane boycott reports raise tensions ahead of third Test

Paine said the reports at the weekend that India might refuse to play at the Gabba had started to annoy some of his players and could result in a backlash when the third test starts at Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday.

Reuters
06 January, 2021, 04:35 pm
Last modified: 06 January, 2021, 04:39 pm
India Brisbane boycott reports raise tensions ahead of third Test

Reports of Indian discontent at the prospect of being forced into strict quarantine for the fourth test against Australia in Brisbane could raise tensions on the field in the series' third match, the home side's captain Tim Paine said on Wednesday.

Paine said the reports at the weekend that India might refuse to play at the Gabba had started to annoy some of his players and could result in a backlash when the third test starts at Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday.

"I think there's a bit of tension starting to boil under the surface with a lot of unnamed sources coming out from their camp saying where they want to play the fourth test and where they don't want to go," he said in his pre-match news conference.

"I think it's starting to grind a few people, so we'll see how it goes."

Indian officials have made no statements about the issue, and Cricket Australia boss Nick Hockley said on Monday he had heard nothing from them to suggest they were unhappy with the arrangements for Brisbane.

India captain Ajinkya Rahane on Wednesday admitted that quarantine was a burden but sidestepped all questions about a potential Brisbane boycott, saying such issues were for the "BCCI and the team management".

"Quarantine life is definitely a challenge, especially we know that in Australia, in Sydney especially, the life is normal," he told reporters.

"The players are stuck in the room, which is okay. We know how to handle it, we are prepared for any kind of situation. We are not at all annoyed. We know what's our priority here.

"We are here to play cricket and we just want to do that. Starting from tomorrow, start well in the test match and, as a team, as a unit, we are just focused on playing some good cricket."

The series is nicely poised at 1-1 and some in the Australian media have suggested that India would just prefer to avoid the Gabba, where India have never won, and play the fourth test in Sydney, where they have a better record.

Paine said Australia would turn up and play the fourth test anywhere.

"When you hear things like that coming, particularly from India, who we know hold a lot of power in world cricket, it's likely that it could happen," he said.

"But we're not too fussed. We're not buying into where the test is being played. As far as we're aware it is at the Gabba, but as I said in the team meeting the other day, we couldn't care less.

"If you rang us up and said it's in Mumbai tomorrow, we'd get on a plane and we'd go and play it. That's the way we are looking at it."

Cricket

Australia Cricket Team / India Cricket Team / Test Cricket

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Coal coming to feed hungry power plants 
    Coal coming to feed hungry power plants 
  • City polls: 83% of centres in Barishal, 56% in Khulna identified as risky
    City polls: 83% of centres in Barishal, 56% in Khulna identified as risky
  • Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
    Jamaat holds first rally after a decade, demands polls under caretaker govt

MOST VIEWED

  • Photo: ICC
    Kohli holds firm against Australia in thrilling WTC final
  • Photo: Reuters
    Swiatek reigns supreme at French Open by quelling Muchova
  • Photo: Courtesy
    Was Green's catch clean? Here's what the ICC rule says
  • Photo: AFP
    ICC issues important notice about reserve day after loss of overs in Test Championship final
  • Photo: Courtesy
    Bangladesh archery team wins bronze in Singapore
  • Photo: BCB
    Afghanistan in Dhaka ahead of one-off Test

Related News

  • Kohli holds firm against Australia in thrilling WTC final
  • Was Green's catch clean? Here's what the ICC rule says
  • ICC issues important notice about reserve day after loss of overs in Test Championship final
  • Australia heap misery on India in World Test Championship final
  • Steve Waugh not happy with Rohit, Dravid after India's batting collapse

Features

Photo: Ythan Estuary in Aberdeenshire. Photo: C. Michael Hogan, Wikimedia commons.

Life in the Wild: Entering the magic world of wildlife filming

13h | Panorama
Every floor of this school has three to four bedrooms, with 15 to 18 children in each of them. Photo: Saqlain Rizve

What an average boarding school looks like in Dhaka

17h | Panorama
The mystique of Serajul Alam Khan

The mystique of Serajul Alam Khan

1d | Panorama
Yamaha MT-15 V2

Top 3 150-160cc naked sports bikes in Bangladesh

1d | Wheels

More Videos from TBS

Japan Aim to boost trade with Bangladesh

Japan Aim to boost trade with Bangladesh

13h | TBS Face to Face
You have to pay a premium if wait for good days

You have to pay a premium if wait for good days

14h | TBS Markets
Stats of Europe’s Top 5 League

Stats of Europe’s Top 5 League

1d | TBS SPORTS
13 helpful tips to negotiate about job

13 helpful tips to negotiate about job

2d | TBS Career

Most Read

1
Photo: Noor-A-Alam/TBS
Splash

The Night Dhaka did NOT vibe with Anuv Jain

2
Photo: TBS
Energy

2nd unit of Payra power plant to shut down over coal shortage

3
Digital bank licence requires Tk125cr capital
Banking

Digital bank licence requires Tk125cr capital

4
Photo: Screengrab from a video posted by a NSU student
Energy

'Will collapse any moment': NSU teachers, students raise concern after long power outage hit country's largest private uni

5
bKash denied permission to pay $4.10 lakh for Argentina football partnership
Banking

bKash denied permission to pay $4.10 lakh for Argentina football partnership

6
FILE PHOTO: A passenger plane is seen with the moon behind as it flies over London, Britain, January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Aviation

Bangladesh withholds $214m in airline funds; 2nd among top 5 countries: IATA

EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2023
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]