‘Cricket news was over the tournament’

Royal Challengers Bangalore Players and employees experienced an chaotic evening on 8 May, when the IPL game was closed in Dharmasala due to the Indo-Pakistan military conflict, as revealed by the director of the team’s cricket. Mo babaat On Friday. The team was returning from practice when he learned about the suspension of the IPL for a week, which impressed his scheduled match against Lucknow Super Veterans on 9 May.The RCB team first saw that something was wrong when they saw the players of Punjab Kings and Delhi capitals, who used to leave Andhamasala Stadium in the dark while looking back to the hotel on their phone during their bus ride.“Yes, quite chaotic. Tried to be quite calm and tried to get more and more information from the BCCI and tried to communicate with clarity,” Bobat said, who previously served as the performance director of England’s men’s team.

“It was a very incidental evening. We practiced a day before the Lucknow game. And, then, in reality back on the way, many people were watching the game on their phone, the game of Punjab vs Delhi capitals.Quiz: Who is that IPL player?The team learned about the suspension of the tournament the next morning, initially believing that it could be completely closed.“So that evening a lot of rumors, a lot of chats and the next morning we came to know that our game was not happening and the competition was suspended for a period. Our initial belief was that the competition would be closed for some time. You don’t expect such a struggle, as to resolve yourself, as it was.”The team management preferred players safety, focusing on arranging their home during the indefinite period.

“We were quite keen to send the players home because it was really a good chance for them to have a break. So for Indian players, it is relatively straightforward. With foreign players, themselves and Andy sat down and talked to them all and said, ‘Look, what is your priority?” And many of them said, ‘Look we want to go home because it is a period of uncertainty, but was very committed, and if we need to come back we will come back.’ ,The process of bringing back foreign players proved to be more challenging than sending them home, requiring security assurance and coordination with various cricket boards.“We came to know on Monday evening that the tournament was back. Therefore, overnight we were trying to find out as much security details as we needed to communicate as much as possible. We took a quick decision to communicate the Indian players.

“I made a video call with all foreign players, took them through safety details, schedule, how RCB was going to take care of them, which is really important for them because we want them to make them feel safe and happy here.”