‘Australian media playing role of 12th man, creating image of India chickening out of Brisbane Test,’ says Aakash Chopra

The ongoing sequence between India and Australia noticed a contemporary spark of controversy rising when 5 members of the Indian staff have been positioned in isolation after a reported breach of bio-bubble protocols. Reports, then, additionally got here out that the Indian staff need a leisure on the strict restrictions and therefore, are reluctant to play the 4th Test on the Gabba in Brisbane. The PTI information company on Thursday additional reported that the BCCI on Thursday wrote to Cricket Australia looking for leisure in exhausting quarantine protocol of Brisbane for the fourth Test to go forward, reminding the host board that the guests are performed with the strict isolation that was agreed upon originally of the tour.Amid this dialogue, former India cricketer Aakash Chopra slammed Australia media and stated that they’re creating a picture as if Indian staff is scared to play the Australian staff on the Gabba. Describing the Aussie media because the “12th man”, Chopra stated that a picture is being created as if the Indian staff is “chickening out” of the Brisbane Test.Also Read | Doubts over India vs Australia 4th Test in Brisbane develop after Queensland impose exhausting lockdown“I saw it during the last tour as well that mental disintegration is practised in Australia. When Australia lost the Adelaide Test last time, coach Justin Langer spoke to the media that this is a team of ‘bad boys’ and they ‘bully’ the other team. I was like ‘bully calling a bully, what are you doing?’. Then after they won the Perth Test, the media created a buzz that India cannot win in Perth,” Chopra stated in a video on his Youtube channel. “Now a similar atmosphere is being built at Gabba that this Indian team cannot win at Gabba. I feel that Indian team is better placed if the match takes place at Gabba, because if we do a man-to-man marking, and if Steve Smith does not score runs, the weight is tilted towards the Indian side. “It is the Australian team who should think about playing on a different surface, on a more quicker pitch. But the atmosphere has been created that the Indian team does not want to play in Gabba and they are ‘chickening out’ because they are scared of the grass on Gabba surface,” he additional stated.Also Read | Glenn McGrath raises questions on David Warner’s health“This is very typical of Australian media and this is how they behave. They became the 12th man. It happened during the last tour as well. They would leak a small video clip of how Ravindra Jadeja and Ishant Sharma are arguing, and the stump mic caught some abusive exchanges between the players. “I mean how the media got hold of these clips? This is the whole system that is in place that a media story will come out, then former players will start speaking about it. The former players, on the last tour, started speaking in unison that this Indian team is really ill-mannered team, but they were tasting their own medicine.”“Why was sledging between the players made into a national issue? I remember there was front-page news that said ‘Indian team is in disarray’ because there is a divide in the team. It was another example of blowing things out of proportion by the Australian media, and they actually played the role of the 12th man for their side. Is this happening all over again? My question is this.“The atmosphere that has been created around the Brisbane Test reminds me of what has happened in Australia over the years where media, former players, and current players because they are asked such questions – and they all gang up together against the oppositions and this is what they do, and maybe the same thing is happening again,” Chopra signed off.