The five Indian cricketers – Rohit Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill must be cursing the moment when they went to eat out as now they have been isolated from the other players. It happened after an Indian fan named Navaldeep Singh posted a video in which these cricketers were seen in a restaurant and he was sitting near them on a different table.
Bc mere saamne waale table par gill pant sharma saini fuckkkkkk pic.twitter.com/yQUvdu3shF
— Navaldeep Singh (@NavalGeekSingh) January 1, 2021
He not only paid their bill but also claimed on Twitter that Rishabh Pant hugged him. However later on, Navaldeep Singh retracted from his words as he said that he never got hugged by Rishabh Pant and social distancing was maintained in a proper manner.
Clarification – Pant never hugged me it was all said in excitement we maintained social distance all thru:) Apologies for miscommunication @BCCI @CricketAus @dailytelegraph
— Navaldeep Singh (@NavalGeekSingh) January 2, 2021
After this video went viral, the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Australia started a joint investigation in order to find out whether the players have breached the bio-bubble protocol or not. As of now, these five players have been put in isolation and they will not only get trained separately from the team but also travel separately.
Navaldeep Singh is facing the ire of the Indian cricket fans as he is being abused on the micro-blogging site. He tweets that he is getting abused but it doesn’t matter to him as he is Punjabi and whenever he sits with friends, they exchange 400-500 abusive words generally but what is making him sad is that he is against the people of his own country. He has also apologized to everyone and hoped that things get settle down soon.
Here is what he wrote, “Mujhe log galiya de rae h.. dekho gaaliyo ka farak nai padta mujhe hum punjabi h 400-500 gaaliyan dosto ke saath bethe to apas main de dete h.. but I am really sad that I am against my country people at the moment. I am really sorry people and I just hope ke sab thik ho jaaye”.
Mujhe log galiya de rae h.. dekho gaaliyo ka farak nai padta mujhe hum punjabi h 400-500 gaaliyan dosto ke saath bethe to apas main de dete h.. but i am really sad that i am against my country people at the moment. I am really sorry people and i just hope ke sab thik ho jaaye 😭
— Navaldeep Singh (@NavalGeekSingh) January 2, 2021
There is one more thing which can create a controversy; the Indian team is in no mood to travel to Brisbane for the fourth test match as they will need to undergo a harder quarantine over there.
Let’s see how the things proceed from here on.