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Team India To Travel By Business Class Now

The players had complained about leg-space and selfie-seeking fellow-passengers in economy flights..

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MS Dhoni hardly ever sat in business class on domestic flights even when he was skipper: Sunil Gavaskar

Indian team has this culture of rewarding top-performers, captain and coaching staff with business class tickets on domestic flights during the home season..

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• Team India captain and head coach always get to travel in business class on flights
• Sunil Gavaskar revealed that MS Dhoni hardly ever availed this luxury even when he was the captain
• Dhoni would prefer to sit with the real champs of the TV coverage: Gavaskar stated

Describing the humble side of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar revealed in one of his columns for a daily that Mahi makes it a point to sit with local TV crews on flights.

The Indian team rewards its top performers with business class seats on flights during the home season. The captain and coaching staff members also get to avail the privilege unlike the rest of the squad due to the limited number of business class seats on domestic flights.

But Dhoni being Dhoni, never avails this luxury it seems.

"The Indian team has a lovely system of rewarding its players especially in home matches. As most Indian cricket followers know, during the Indian domestic international season, both teams travel in a special chartered flight from one venue to the next.

"The flight also carries the technical TV crew who have to rig the cables for the next game. There are limited seats in business class and the captains, coaches and managers of the teams get these.

"It is here that those Indian players, who have done well in their previous game, get to sit there as a reward rather than the economy class behind.

"Mahendra Singh Dhoni hardly ever sat in business class on these flights even when he was the skipper as he would prefer to sit with the real champs of the TV coverage, the cameramen and the sound engineers," Gavaskar wrote in his column for the Mid-Day.

Current skipper Virat Kohli has also picked up this trait from his predecessor it seems as former England captain Michael Vaughan had revealed in 2018 that he saw Kohli and his wife Anushka Sharma give up their business class seats to India's fast bowlers on a flight from Adelaide to Perth during the 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar series.

Witnessed @imVkohli & his wife give up their Business class seats to allow the Quicks more comfort & space on the trip from Adelaide - Perth !! Danger Australia .. Not only are the quicks more relaxed .. The Skipper is managing his troops with great human touches #AUSvIND Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) December 11, 2018