The BCCI recently laid down a fresh set of guidelines for the players, which also included — ban on vlogging with the team, or in training sessions. The move had come after Yuzvendra Chahal was caught vaping on Arshdeep’s Singh vlog. And the effects are to be seen already. As per a CSK net bowler — Jishan Adil, the team management has asked him to remove his bowling videos from the training sessions.
BCCI cracks whip on videos
The player in question wrote on social media, how events had unfolded. “Hi everyone, as you all know, I have been posting my bowling videos from the CSK camp and thanks to you all, they all got viral within a few days. Unfortunately, CSK management has asked me to remove the videos from my social media,” Adil posted on his Instagram story.
One of the biggest problems for the BCCI has been, there has been countless videos around the IPL ecosystem, that comes from known faces, which isn’t helping them. “There have been a few breaches by a few commentators. One former international cricketer was found making videos on his phone near the dugout in a tense situation of a match,” a BCCI source said while speaking to The Times of India.
To curb all this, some stringent measures are being taken. The BCCI has also cracked a whip on such videos by friends and family of the players. Meanwhile, the board had sent guidelines on various other issues too, last Friday. And there could be random checks to see, if everything laid down, is being followed or not.
“The BCCI / IPL Operations Team may conduct periodic checks to assess adherence to the directives set forth in this Advisory. ….Any individual found engaging in such conduct within tournament premises is not only violating BCCI and IPL regulations but may also be committing a cognisable offence under the applicable statutory framework,” BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia stated in the directive.
