A report by on Thursday said that the Indian team is unhappy with ‘average’ training facilities provided by Cantiague Park while preparing in New York ahead of the T20 World Cup.
Their training began yesterday and the team, including head coach Rahul Dravid, seems not to be happy with the practice facilities in US.
The Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York where India will have its warm-up game plus three group matches has no practice facilities while Cantiague Park has been given as a temporary venue for Indian national team’s training.
The report also noted that food arrangement at the match venue is not good enough and concerns about this have been expressed.
“Everything from pitches to any other services are makeshift. Suffice to say everything is exceptionally average. The team has raised their concerns,” the source familiar with developments.
Additionally, when contacted for response, ICC stated that it hasn’t received any such grievances or complaints from Indian team’s side according to this report.
“No other team made any complaint or had a concern about practicing at Cantiague Park,” says an ICC statement contained in the report.
Earlier on, ICC declared Cantiague Park as an official training facility for teams. This facility however is quite far away from Nassau County International Cricket Stadium where games are scheduled to take place.
India are slated to play Bangladesh for their only warm-up match on June 1st.
On the other hand India will start off with Group A games against Ireland, Pakistan and USA at th Nassau Stadium before moving further down south to Florida for their last group game against Canada.
