On Friday, when a wide-eyed Indian fan tweeted a series of photos of five Indian players – Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Navdeep Saini, Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill – dining at a Melbourne restaurant, it created a stir in the social networks. The fan suggested that he paid the players’ bill and then hugged Pant, a claim he has since retracted.
According to Australian media reports, this was not the only case of an alleged biobubble rupture by the Indian team during the tour. In fact, there were two other minor offenses, which until now had not been reported.
The first involved Captain Virat Kohli and off-roader Hardik Pandya, who visited a small boy’s shop in Sydney on December 7. violated Cricket Australia’s biosecurity standards, an official told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Just over a week later, a group of Indian players pitted up late at night at a restaurant in Adelaide.
A couple of them came in to order, while others sat at a table outside. This was another infraction as the players who entered were not wearing masks.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, both cases were minor infractions, but unlike the one involving the five Indian players who created a Twitter meltdown, these cases went unnoticed because they were not reported to cricket authorities.
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