The Indian gamers dined at ‘British Raj’ earlier than getting right down to plot England’s downfall within the T20 World Cup semifinal, and the irony wasn’t misplaced on anybody right here in Australia. The ‘Men in Blue’ have been dwelling out of their suitcases since arriving in Australia, and because the showpiece entered its enterprise finish, they took out a while to bond and chill out at a widely known Indian restaurant forward of the large semi-final. On Thursday, Rohit Sharma’s group could be aiming to finish England’s run on this version of the worldwide meet.

The restaurant located at 170, Henley Beach Road in Torrensville is legendary on this a part of the world for its rooster tikka, Kashmiri pilau and lamb rogan josh. Earlier within the match, the Indian group had some points with the type of menu that was determined by the ICC. It did not swimsuit the gamers’ tastebuds.

“The team and the players hardly had any time to relax and take their mind off from the pressure of a high-octane tourney like World Cup since there has been hardly any time between games,” a senior BCCI official aware about the group actions instructed PTI.

“… And too many internal flights, three days in Adelaide is like bliss. Hence the players and their partners (wives and girlfriends) who are present joined for a team dinner. This is a team bonding exercise also and a chance to completely unwind,” he added.

Since the Indian cricket group is commercially essentially the most viable squad, its itinerary has been filled with journey round all the most important Australian cities.

They first travelled from Mumbai to Perth. The group stayed seven days in Perth for its first intensive coaching and observe video games, adopted by one other spherical of official warm-up video games (one washed out in Brisbane). These have been two totally different time zones earlier than they landed in Melbourne.

In Melbourne, they stayed for 4 days, adopted by 4 days in Sydney, one other three days in Perth (totally different time zone), adopted by three days in Adelaide and one other three days in Melbourne.

It has solely been about enjoying matches and hoping onto the following flight with a relaxation day and an non-obligatory coaching session in between.

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Head coach Rahul Dravid, even throughout his captaincy days and later as U-19 nationwide coach, has been huge on group bonding and group actions.

On the day, Rohit received hit on the forearm however he’s completely positive and there’s no strapping on his proper hand, which should have delighted the followers current exterior the group lodge.