{"id":10374,"date":"2016-07-16T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2016-07-16T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:02:05","slug":"bcci-unhappy-with-some-indian-players-posing-with-beer-ahead-of-west-indies-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/16\/bcci-unhappy-with-some-indian-players-posing-with-beer-ahead-of-west-indies-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI unhappy with some Indian players posing with beer ahead of West Indies Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Shikhar-Dhawan-selfie-India-West-Indies-Twitter-380.jpg\" alt=\"Board of Control for Cricket in India, West Indies Cricket Board, India's Tour of West Indies 2016, West Indies vs India, WICB, BCCI, WIvsIND, Virat Kohli, Jason Holder, Murali Vijay, Kohli, Rahane, Darren Bravo, Samuels, Ramdin, Ishant, Umesh, Ashwin, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, Kemar Roach, Phil Simmons, Anil Kumble, Sanjay Banger, Abhay Sharma\" width=\"577\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the Indian cricketers have largely had a relaxed time in the Caribbean so far,\u00a0with the squad spending quality time in its pristine beaches, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has not taken kindly to pictures of a couple of players posing with beer in their hands, urging them to behave as &#8220;role models&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on <strong>The Hindu<\/strong>,\u00a0the BCCI shot off an advisory to the Indian team through their manager Riyaz Bagwan after\u00a0some of the Indian players were found posing with beer bottles during their outing to St Nevis, a popular beach, during their break between the two scheduled warm-up fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the BCCI officials aren\u2019t happy with players posting such images on social media. There has been no written communication, but the manager has been asked to send a message to the players to ensure that nothing that could set a bad example should be posted online,&#8221; a BCCI official was quoted as saying in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The picture in question featured Karnataka batsman KL Rahul as well as speedster Umesh Yadav and all-rounder Stuart Binny.\u00a0The original\u00a0post has been deleted from Twitter following BCCI&#8217;s reaction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many kids blindly follow the star cricketers\u2019 actions on and off the field, so our boys have got to always keep that in mind. They should always consider the sense and sensitivities of Indian cricket fans,&#8221; said another BCCI official in the report.<\/p>\n<p>India are currently playing a three-day warm-up match against the West Indies\u00a0Cricket Board (WICB) President&#8217;s XI in Basseterre, and were in firm\u00a0control of the proceedings thanks to the all-round heroics of Ravindra Jadeja.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul, one of the\u00a0players in question, has struck two consecutive half-centuries\u00a0in practice games in the tour so far, looking set to seal\u00a0a spot in the main XI for the first Test that starts on 21 July.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Indian cricketers have largely had a relaxed time in the Caribbean so far,\u00a0with the squad spending quality time in its pristine beaches, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has not taken kindly to pictures of a couple of players posing with beer in their hands, urging them to behave as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,70,8,170,140],"tags":[152,10,114,1456,971,1458,408,1459,1457,232,1356,765],"class_list":["post-10374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket-analysis","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-bcci","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-india-vs-west-indies","tag-kl-rahul","tag-riyaz-bhagwan","tag-sports","tag-stuart-binny","tag-umesh-yadav","tag-west-indies","tag-west-indies-vs-india","tag-wivsind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}