In a statement on Friday, the director of the team’s director Cricket Mo Babat, the IPL game in Dharamsala in Dharamsala was called for royal Challengers Bengaluru players and staff, chaos, rumors and lack of clarity. RCB players, Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals cricketists were returning to their hotels by the team bus after an application session that left the Daramsala Stadium on May 8th.
The RCB was planned to play Lucknow Super Giants on May 9 on May 9, the IPL was suspended for a week due to the Indian-Pakistan military conflict.
“Yes, it’s quite chaotic. He tried to stay quite calm and tried to get as much information from BCCI as possible and tried to communicate with clarity.”
“It was a very active evening. We practice the day before Lucknow. And then, on the way back, on the bus, many men were watching the game on their phones, Punjab vs Delhi Capitals.
“And then we saw that the projectors went out and the players came out of the field. We weren’t sure what’s going on, and we just have an appropriate idea of what’s going on when we return to the hotel.”
Bobat, the team only the next day IPL suspension, he said. His first thought was that the tournament would be called.
“We learned that our game was not realized that evening, a lot of conversation and the next morning, and the competition was suspended for a while.
“Our first impression was that the competition would be called for a while. You do not expect such a conflict to solve itself as it is.” RCB, both Indian and overseas players, considering the deteriorating situation, said that they would want to return to the safety of their homes.
“We were quite eager to send players home because it was actually a good chance to take a break. So this relatively simple for Indian players.
“I and my own (head coach) and (Flower) sat down and spoke to all of them and said, ‘Look, what is your choice?’ And many of them want to go home, but if we need to go back, we want to go home. ‘ Reinstalling the overseas players was a much greater task than sending them back to their own countries, and they came with a lot of contact with security safety and relevant cricket boards.
“We learned that the tournament was back on Monday evening. So we were trying to find as much security details as possible overnight because we had to convey it to the players.
“We made a quick decision to communicate with Indian players when we wanted them. In addition, some of the overseas administrative bodies, ECB, Cricket Australia, Cricket South Africa and West Indian Islands because you need to know what effects on them.
“I listed video talks with all overseas players, I have spent security details, program about how the RCB will look at them, which is really important for them to understand because we want them to feel safe and happy here.”
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