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Virat Kohli,Anushka to stay in the same hotel on England tour, BCCI relaxes rules

New Delhi: Drifting away from a normal practice, the BCCI has allowed poster boy Virat Kohli to not only let his “close girl friend” and Bollywood star Anushka Sharma  accompany him but also stay in


 There have been rumors floating around dashing batsman Virat and Anushka, who is also from Delhi, having affair for quite a long time. They have spotted in Jodhpur in a hotel after Virat came back from Bangladesh where ICC T20 was being held.

 

They were also seen during India tour of New Zealand few months ago. It was during the  first Test, at the Nottingham team hotel, 21 rooms were occupied by the non-playing members of this traveling group.

Accompanying the 18-member squad, an unprecedentedly high number, are coaches, managers, logistics staff, helping hands, children .Considering this is a five-match series squeezed into 42 days, a majority of the 15-member support staff are specialists to take care of exhausted bodies or the walking wounded. Local hands have been hired to help the team's regular ‘body caretakers' Evan Speechly (physio), Ramesh Mane (masseur), and Amit Shah (sports masseur).




Among the family members of the cricketers on this tour are opening batsman Murali Vijay's wife Nikita and son Naveen. The team's fielding coach had his wife, son and daughter at the team hotel at Nottingham. Cheteshwar Pujara is traveling with his wife, and so is another batsman   Gautam Gambhir, who also has his three-month-old daughter with him.