Published 12:33 IST, January 2nd 2021

Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant & others breached bio bubble with fan who 'paid their bill'?

Team India's Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Navdeep Saini & Rishabh Pant are reportedly under the BCCI scanner for a potential bio-bubble breach in Melbourne

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Team India's Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Navdeep Saini and Rishabh Pant are under BCCI scanner for a potential bio-bubble breach in Melbourne after y reportedly met an Indian cricket fan at a restaurant on Friday. A fan named Navaldeep Singh took to Twitter to share a series of tweets & a video on meeting Team India stars at a hotel and went on to claim that he h paid ir food bill. As per sources, actions of Indian cricketers have come under scanner of BCCI for t hering to bio-bubble rules set by Cricket Australia.

fan also me a controversial claim that Rishabh Pant h 'hugged' him, however, backtracked and apologised later, revealing that he was 'excited' to meet m and that social distancing h been maintained throughout. As per bio-bubble rules, cricketers h been allowed to dine out at a restaurant but were told to avoid sitting indoors as it could increase chances of contracting COVID-19 virus. Neir BCCI r Cricket Australia have officially commented about issue so far. With two Tests left to compete in, Team India could be dealt with a huge loss if ir players are found guilty of violating bio-bubble. 

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12:33 IST, January 2nd 2021