SOUTHAMPTON: One would have thought that the relations between the Indian cricket team and the media contingent would have improved with the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) at the helm of the BCCI affairs. Even after all the big talk of reforms and bringing in professionalism, sadly nothing has changed on the surface.

The relations between the media and the India team hit the lowest point when the team management decided to send net bowlers Deepak Chahar and Avesh Khan to talk to the waiting Indian media contingent after practice-session at Rose Bowl yesterday. Rather than face the ultimate humiliation, the media decided not to attend the interaction with players who have no role to play in the World Cup as they are just helping out the team during practice sessions.