According to former England captain Michael Vaughan, the whole thing could have been avoided if the supposed Australian reporters used AI tools to transcribe the press conference-event with Ravindra Jadeja, who allegedly refused to speak in English. For the first interaction with the media prior to India’s Boxing Day Test, Jadeja answered all questions in Hindi. The BCCI media team mentioned that Jadeja will not take any questions in English as “to catch the bus.” It laid down a massive controversy with the media going on to say that Jadeja spoke Hindi because the session was primarily for Indian reporters.
India are very much a power house. They do clearly think not having cameras at the airport to film their families goes too far, and this is their reaction. Just brings up much more drama for me. Definitely, have AI systems through which the translation from Hindi will come out as Australian English. So whatever they are they are not willing to speak in English.. Just put it into the system and it’ll come out Australian English You just quote jadeja in what comes in the AI. It might not be the exact same but it will be quite funny,” he said in the Club Praire Fire podcast.
Vaughan also said something about the ‘We have bus to catch’ comment made by the Indian cricket team media manager while refusing questions from the Australian media. Vaughan said that he believes the Indian team uses very “pretty cool cars” for travelling instead of buses.
“I don’t think they have buses. That’s a lie. I think they have cars. I’m pretty sure they don’t go on a double decker team bus. They have pretty cool cars,” he added.
The Boxing Day Test turns out to be very important for both India and Australia with regard to their respective dreams of making it through to the ICC World Test Championship Final because the series is currently level at 1-1 after three matches.