Indian media upset with the team

[shailesh]

rediff The relationship between the Indian team and accompanying media hit rock bottom when Harbhajan Singh was surprisingly sent in for the press conference at the end of the first day's play in the four-day game against Rest of South Africa, on Thursday. The media, which had made a request with Indian media manager Rajan Nair for interaction with the day's top performers -- either Sourav Ganguly or Irfan Pathan -- was stunned to see Harbhajan walk in for the end-of-the day briefing. A few in the print media boycotted the session, which came on the heels of a boycott by the electronic media earlier in the day. It represented a complete breakdown in relations between the team and media on the tour. "Sourav Ganguly was hit on the head and Pathan was too exhausted and the team management felt that Harbhajan Singh should stand in for them," Nair said. The media told Nair that they were prepared to wait for Pathan to recover, but were informed that tam management had already made up its mind on Harbhajan addressing the media. No allowance was made for the argument that Ganguly, hit on his helmet when in his fifties, had batted for over an hour thereafter and scored a fighting 83. The electronic media had earlier boycotted the day's proceedings for what they termed as poor language used by a Cricket South Africa official and Nair's failure to intervene in the matter. The media, both print and electronic, are frustrated on the tour with the gag on Indian players. Their requests for even a common press conference with a player of their choice have been repeatedly turned down.

[kabira]

Re: Indian media upset with the team nice....no talk with press....just concentrate on the job..

[DesiChap]

Re: Indian media upset with the team :wtg: :wtg: :wtg: They should have sent VRV, no need to send an exhausted bhajji

[shailesh]

Re: Indian media upset with the team LOL! I wonder if it was a result of possible harsh comments during the odis. but good to see the masala thirsty media being put in place.

[Guest BossBhai]

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[vroomfondel]

Re: Indian media upset with the team excellent, i suggest vrv for all future press conferences.

[shailesh]

Re: Indian media upset with the team The Indian electronic media on Thursday boycotted the coverage of the first day's play of the four-day warm-up game between Indians and the Rest of South Africa, alleging a racial taunt by a personnel of Cricket South Africa. "We were subjected to vile language by this personnel and what has distressed us is that even our Indian team's media manager didn't deem it fit to intervene," said a senior correspondent of a television network from India. The reason for the unpleasant situation was attributed to the CSA personnel's insistence that electronic media crew should leave the area designated for print media immediately. The personnel, when contacted, denied to have made any racial comment against the Indian electronic media.

[Anakin]

Re: Indian media upset with the team At last VRV can be useful for something

[shailesh]

Re: Indian media upset with the team in other news, vrv was spotted discarding a mask and cricket SA id.

[beetle]

Re: Indian media upset with the team These press wallas think they are God.....and the team is unke baap ki jageer......good to see they were shown their place...imagine??...they want to talk to player of choice...bandar samjha hai aur khud madari banna chahte hain...idiots!

[Predator_05]

Re: Indian media upset with the team

These press wallas think they are God.....and the team is unke baap ki jageer......good to see they were shown their place...imagine??...they want to talk to player of choice...bandar samjha hai aur khud madari banna chahte hain...idiots!

? What do you expect them to do ? It's their job to collect sound-bytes.

[beetle]

Re: Indian media upset with the team hound people.????...consider it as their right to be handed over who ever they want to talk to??? ....dictators hain kya?

[Predator_05]

Re: Indian media upset with the team

hound people.?????

? Since when did the media folk in SA "hound" any of the cricketers ? All they do is put in requests for the big players to speak to them. That isn't "hounding" at all.

[beetle]

Re: Indian media upset with the team and if they refuse...they get upset...

[yoda]

Re: Indian media upset with the team actually it is the norm for top performers of the day to come and talk to the press that day. reasons are obvious. so that the press can ask the performers a few questions and we all can read the answers. the indian team management seems to be playing the extremes. either they will keep talking non stop gibberish (like chappell's comments abour Saurav wanting to play for the money) or won't even make the players of the day available for talking.

[gator]

Re: Indian media upset with the team Rads.... the pen is mightier than the sword.... trust me, no personality has ever taken on the press and come out trumps...

[Rahul]

Re: Indian media upset with the team re: OP, i thot it was Chappell's latest "experiment." :hic: :hic: take it easy, R