Wherever the Indian team travels, it carries along huge baggage. And one is not referring to the host of injuries this World Cup team has been carrying along. In fact, whenever the team goes for practice sessions, there is a huge truckload full of the players’ kits and training gear that follows them.

A member of the logistics team loads one of Team India’s kitbags into a truck after a practice session at the Junction Oval in St Kilda, Melbourne yesterday. Pics/Ashwin Ferro

One would’ve thought that the huge buses the players travel in would be spacious enough to carry their kitbags, but that’s not the case. Yesterday, after a practice session at the Junction Oval, the logistics staff was seen loading all the kitbags and training gear into a huge truck that left much after the players had left, and had obviously arrived at the venue much before them too.