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The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is not only an acid test for the Australian team but also for the Indian security system who will provide them with a perfect security cover, writes Sanjeeb Mukherjea of CNN-IBN, after the Australian cricket team arrived in India Monday for a four Test series.
After a week of uncertainty over the tour, the 15-member team is one of the most inexperienced sides to tour India in the recent past with only four players having toured the country before.
"We have a little bit of inexperience around the side. India at the moment are obviously a very experienced team. They play their conditions well. But the flip side of that is that whenever we have toured the sub-continent in the last 10 years, we have played and held our very high standards that we have had in most other conditions around the world," Australian captain Ricky Ponting is reported to have said.
And as Team Australia landed in Jaipur, a flurry of activity for the men in uniform was an expected sight. After all, the sub-continent hasn’t been the safest of places in the recent past, with terror attacks biting into the fabric of daily life, literally in every place. And no effort is being spared to ensure that Jaipur is sanitised of any threatening possibility, the report adds.
Pankaj Kumar, Inspector-General of the Jaipur Range, was quoted as having said: "The security will be tightened much more than before. We are providing security wherever the team travels in Jaipur. We will have an escort with them all the time. They are staying in a particular hotel in the city where we are extending security in the hotel premises."
Practice sans onlookers
And the Rajasthan Cricket Association has ensured that the Aussies get their practice at the academy grounds adjoining the Sawai Man Singh Stadium under the watchful eyes of policemen who’ll ensure there aren’t any onlookers.
"If you remember, we had the blasts here and after five days we conducted an IPL match. So as far as the police is concerned, as far as our people here are concerned, we are very optimistic, and Australia have also shown the confidence of coming here," said Dr. Bimal Soni, Deputy President of the RCA.
(Russ)
