When you are touring Australia, you are not only up against a quality team but also an invisible 12th man - The Australian media - which, by the way, is not so invisible all the time. The Australian media has started playing its tricks during the ongoing Border-Gavaska Trophy. The boiling point was, of course, what transpired between Virat Kohli and a Channel 7 reporter at the Melbourne airport on the former India captain's arrival on Thursday (December 19). What happened on Saturday during India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja's press conference took it to another level.
Channel 7 carried out a report claiming Jadeja "refused" to answer questions from their reporters in English and the TV reporters, who had travelled all the way after being "invited" and were left "bemused by the "strange and frosty media conference at the MCG."
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The reality, however, is a lot different.
Australian media's claim 1: "India’s Ravindra Jadeja faced reporters but the Australian media were bemused and confused when the star allrounder refused to answer questions in English," the report read. "India’s media team pointed to reporters who were allowed to ask questions, and even acknowledged a few Australian journalists. But Jadeja only responded in his native language."
Reality: At no stage did Jadeja refuse...
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