Overview
- Following heavy Test defeats, the BCCI introduced strict guidelines limiting how long families can stay on tour, restricting personal staff, and emphasizing domestic cricket participation.
- Head coach Gautam Gambhir publicly defended the limits, stressing that tours serve a national purpose and are not holidays.
- Ravi Shastri told The Grade Cricketer that too many people around a team cause distractions and said Gambhir likely acted because the situation was getting out of hand.
- Shastri endorsed Shubman Gill as a calm long‑term captain and flagged the need to deepen the pace bench given Mohammed Shami’s retirement and Jasprit Bumrah’s managed workload.
- The policy has drawn mixed reactions, with media reports saying some players were unhappy, as India opens a three‑match ODI series in Perth on October 19.