CoA will ignore reports of rifts within Team India until players raise it themselves

Mumbai: The Committee of Administrators (CoA) is reportedly not going to discuss the alleged rift in the Indian team at its meeting on Friday. CoA feels that it's the Indian players who need to bring up the issue, as reported by IANS.

A CoA member while speaking to the news agency stated that they are probably not going to bring up the issue of rifts in the team unless the players mention it themselves, as they cannot act on the basis of media reports only.

"The CoA cannot be reacting to reports in the media. If the players have any issue, they can/should bring it up with us. As far as the committee is concerned, there is no rift till the players talk of it with us," the member told IANS.

On the other hand, a senior BCCI official stated to IANS that the CoA needs to address the rifts between the team or ask the manager to submit a report regarding the rift as this rift needs to get resolved.

"I wish the CoA would really focus on what they are required to focus on -- administration. Someone in the CoA seems so hell-bent on getting involved in board politics that the real job has been left undone. We are appalled by the news of rifts in the team coming out daily and at the absence of any effort to either lay the stories to rest or to solve the issue if it really exists. Surely, the manager can be asked to submit a report since it is an administrative issue," said the official.