Reports: Virat Kohli's request to allow players' wives on overseas tour likely to be declined

Team India recently came back from a three-month gruelling England tour where the BCCI hadn’t allowed the players’ wives to accompany the cricketers for a long time. They were given only a few days to stay with their cricketer husbands and were asked to return. With Australia tour coming up, Virat Kohli requested the board to let their wives stay with them during the tour to which the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has reacted now and aren’t going to take any decision soon.

Kohli and Co. are scheduled to leave for Australia in November where they will play three T20 Internationals, four Tests and three ODIs. Like England, they will stay Down Under for close to three months after which the team will go to New Zealand for a limited-overs assignment. They will return home only in February which is a long period and also might be the reason for the Indian captain’s concern.

The policy won’t change now

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court-appointed CoA has admitted that Virat Kohli has put forth the request to allow the wives of the players on the overseas tours. But they have decided not to take any action on this issue soon. CoA wants the new office bearers to take a decision on this matter and it seems that the Indian team members will have to make do without their family in the Australia tour.

“Yes he (Virat) had requested, but we are not going to take any decision soon. We have said that we will leave it to the new office bearers. The policy will not change now,” the source was quoted as saying by ABP News on Sunday.

As per the current policy, the players’ wives can only stay with their husband cricketers for only two weeks during their overseas tours and the same was followed during the England tour.

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