At one point, India’s media manager asked a cameraman to “please put the camera down”.
India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja walks off to the disappointment of Australian reporters.Credit: Channel Nine
A large contingent of Indian reporters have made the trip to Australia.
It is highly unusual that not one local reporter was able to ask a question in English. Indian reporters have complained on this tour they do not get to ask enough questions of Australian players.
The clash comes after Kohli confronted a Channel Nine reporter at Melbourne Airport for what he believed to be an invasion of privacy. Despite the cameraman filming him – and not his children, as he claimed – Kohli spoke to the woman for several minutes and expressed his displeasure.
Indian players have been reluctant to speak to the media on this tour, but there is nothing Cricket Australia can do about it. There is no commercial benefit for India to promote the Test series. Before the opening Test, India went for days without making a player available to the media.
Captain Rohit Sharma did not appear for his usual pre-match press conference in Brisbane, India saying it was an optional session and he wasn’t at the ground. Shubman Gill stepped up in Rohit’s absence.
India were comprehensively outplayed in Adelaide and Brisbane but can still retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a win in Melbourne.
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“The next two matches will be interesting,” Jadeja said at the press conference, translated to English and published on international wire services. “If we win one match we retain the series. We obviously won the last two series here. It’s a good opportunity. This will be a crucial match.”
During the Adelaide Test, Travis Head and Mohammed Siraj were involved in a heated altercation after the Australian batsman was given a send-off when dismissed for 140.
Head later claimed it wasn’t the first time he had received a send-off in the series and said he didn’t appreciate it.
