Typical BCCI balls up

[King Tendulkar]

No rooms for Bose, Ishant! MUMBAI, June 27: Pacemen Ishant Sharma and Ranadeb Bose reached Belfast on Wednesday morning after a long and tiring flight, only to discover that there were no rooms available at the Team India hotel. "All rooms have been taken so they could not get in here," said a team source. Rushed in as replacements for S Sreesanth and Ajit Agarkar, who are still down with viral fever, Sharma and Bose were forced to check-in at a nearby hotel, La Mon Country Club. The duo will now come back to the team hotel only on Thursday afternoon when rooms are likely to be available. Sharma and Bose will also join the team for their first practice session on Thursday.

[King]

A good opportunity for ICL to score few over BCCI. No sporting organization can be worse than the BCCI. They can't even get the travel arrangements right :thumbs_up:

[Chandan]

How would they do that Ravi? I mean ICL?

[yoda]

What's wrong in staying at a near by hotel for a few days? WTF is the BCCI supposed to do if there are no rooms available at the hotel? Bring in some goondas and evict some guests?

[The Outsider]

What's wrong in staying at a near by hotel for a few days? WTF is the BCCI supposed to do if there are no rooms available at the hotel? Bring in some goondas and evict some guests?

Perhaps making reservations a bit earlier would not have been a bad idea.

[Holysmoke]

borde should have gone to the nearby hotel instead.. as it is, he's there for sightseeing only....

[yoda]

borde should have gone to the nearby hotel instead.. as it is' date=' he's there for sightseeing only....[/quote'] it depends on which hotel gives a better view...

[beetle]

May be they didn't want them to catch the flu.....:tounge_smile:

[Holysmoke]

it depends on which hotel gives a better view...

bloody hell, first of all , he's getting a free trip of the UK. He should learn to make compromises sometimes

[THX_1138]

Perhaps making reservations a bit earlier would not have been a bad idea.

what is point of making reservations for more than the permitted 16 member squad? when was the last time india needed to call emergency players to substitute for injured or ill players? and yeah, when you travel, do you reserve seats for two? you know in case you find that special someone?

[THX_1138]

borde should have gone to the nearby hotel instead.. as it is' date=' he's there for sightseeing only....[/quote'] well dravid would rather see him doing the laundry, i would throw in some other responsibilities such as replenishing used toilet paper.

[The Outsider]

what is point of making reservations for more than the permitted 16 member squad? when was the last time india needed to call emergency players to substitute for injured or ill players? and yeah, when you travel, do you reserve seats for two? you know in case you find that special someone?

The decision to send them was made a good 4-5 days ago in case you missed the news while they just landed up at the hotel hoping to find a room according to the article above.

[Lurker]

Arre boss Ishant Sharma and Bose have been put up at a 4star hotel. Here is the link. http://www.lamon.co.uk/index.shtml Dont feel bad for them, they must be enjoying themselves. Why this hurry to throw carts out of the pram man? Hotel mein jagah nahin mila to doosre jagah ruk jaao na, A1 hotel to diya hai end mein, not some stupid B&B. xxx

[King]

It is not about staying elsewhere but it is about communicating this to the players when they reached there. I bet the BCCI when they sent these replacements out did not have a clue about the no vacancy at the hotel. They will have been told to get to the hotel and would have been told everything's been taken care of. Only after reaching these fellas would have come to know there is no accommodation. As I said it is not about the place it is about communicating to the players. BCCI has done such stuff ups so many times it isn't funny anymore. I've heard first hand versions of such stuff ups.

[The Outsider]

^ Well said Ravi.