Auckland: The Indian cricket team's 'strategy' to distance itself from the travelling media contingent here is getting ridiculous with each passing day.


A view from a room at the Heritage Hotel in Auckland. Pic/Getty Images 

As though media manager Dr RN Baba's one-line, dictator-like emails clarifying that there will be 'no media activity' almost everyday wasn't enough, the team management, it is learnt, has also asked their hotel security staff to keep journalists off their premises.