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In its bid to prevent fresh controversies, BCCI has given strict instructions to the members of Indian cricket team, currently on a 80-day tour to UK, not to leak happenings in the dressing room and team meetings.
A letter, written by BCCI's Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty, has directed the team members to keep under wraps "the talks in dressing room and team meetings".
Quite obviously, the BCCI wants to avoid the sort of explosive situation that had erupted when Greg Chappell was the coach and Sourav Ganguly, the captain, and the duo got involved in one of cricket's most talked about public spats during the tour of Zimbabwe in 2005.
They have also been told not to give interviews to the media without the prior permission of the team management, a continuation of the practice that has been followed for the last few tours.
Last day skipper Rahul Dravid had made it clear at the pre-departure media conference that the players would not give exclusive interviews to the media during the tour.
"On match days the performer on that day will be asked to meet the media through a common media conference," he said.
This too has been included in the letter given by the Board which states that on practice days the team management will decide which player will talk to the media.
"On match days the performer of the day should be available for the media briefing," says the letter, which, to an extent, conforms to the edicts followed by the Association of Tennis Professionals and the Women's Tennis Association who even levy fines for the non-appearance of players at mandatory media conferences.
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