To concoct a saltine of a challenge between the round of bat and ball in cricket, regularly the dressing rooms are the dens where all the arranging, preparing, and planning takes up among the board and the players. Notwithstanding, while aside from talking about the game’s quick and dirty at its center, dressing rooms likewise become the social chambers where a cricketer happily entertains itself into shaping a domain of brotherhood and fellowships.
While regularly the stories and the amusing cases emerging from such overflowing bonds are kept well flawless even off the field, some of them which can be unreservedly partaken in the public area are to a great extent all around uncovered by our darling cricketers, particularly when they once resign from the game.
Popular dressing room mysteries that have been very much discussed
- Sourav Ganguly getting tricked by the Indian team on April fool’s day
Indeed, this popular episode had taken care of business when the previous captain Sourav Ganguly was bravely driving group India in 2005 and had changed the professions of different young people like Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, and Yuvraj Singh. What’s more, of course, on a game day against Pakistan in Kochi, the captain had assembled out for a group conference wherein the clown Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh alongside some other group India individuals completed a gigantic trick on Dada during an April Fool’s day.
While doing the group meeting, the threesome of Yuvraj, Harbhajan, and Sehwag had gotten a phony printout of a paper that featured some nonexistent meeting of Ganguly wherein he was exceptionally reproachful of his players. Notwithstanding, with Ganguly then, at that point giving it a cautious read, the captain quickly attempted to explain that nothing as such was said by him in any of the meetings.
Maybe even after pleadingly guaranteeing his honesty on a few events, the youths and the other colleagues didn’t ease off which in the long run then, at that point impelled the captain to strongly abandon his captaincy out of distress. In any case, with the bad habit commander Rahul Dravid being not able to withstand any further joke of Ganguly, he then, at that point had an upheaval of snickers that ultimately uncovered the whole circumstance as a trick on the captain. Thus with Dada then, at that point being more alleviated as opposed to humiliated had promptly gotten his bat and begun pursuing the wisecrackers.
- Steve Waugh‘s epic exhortation to Brad Hogg
Way back in 2016, when Brad Hogg had dispatched his book “The Wrong Un” there came a monstrous disclosure which had featured the previous Australian captain’s epic trick on Brad Hogg during his presentation visit. The occurrence had gotten down to business when Australia’s group physio Erroll Alcott had given a few pills to each Australian player before the main game.
Notwithstanding, with the chief then, at that point sitting close to Brad Hogg, Steve Waugh while featuring the significance of those pills had advised the leg-spinner to stay them at an uncommon piece of his body. Steve by exhorting Hogg had said, “You must put them up to your butt, mate.” Further, the captain additionally then affirmed that even he was going to proceed to do exactly the same thing.
Presently with the counsel rolling in from a senior player that excessively even from the captain of the group, Hogg without really thinking about it went on and did precisely the same thing. A lot later on, by in the long run understanding that those pills were the simple Vitamin C tablets that should be burned-through in a standard manner, the leg-spinner in the end additionally then shared his distress subsequent to bearing a disagreeable encounter.
- Dawood Ibrahim’s visit to the Indian dressing room
Not at all like the present day and age where going into a dressing room isn’t not exactly any crime, harking back to the twentieth century there ain’t used to be a large part of the limitations when it came to floating around the players at the burrow. Particularly in places like Sharjah where match-fixing used to be a major wonder, even individuals from the hidden world like Dawood Ibrahim were seen to visit at group India’s dressing room.
According to the reviewing done by the unbelievable Kapil Dev and by the incomparable DilipVengsarkar, Dawood had gone into group India’s dressing room during the procedures of the popular Sharjah Cup back in 1987. The hidden world criminal had requested that if group India can win the opposition that had likewise incorporated the other three in number groups (Pak, Eng, Aus) then, at that point every one of its players alongside different authorities will be gifted a Toyota vehicle separately.
Notwithstanding, in spite of hearing such complimenting offers, the Indian group had consistently dismissed Dawood’s requests as well as had strongly ousted him out by getting his collar and driving him away.
