Australia V India Live: Dravid, Sehwag Dismiss Rift Rumours

Both Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag have dismissed rumours that there were issues between the senior players in the Indian team. Earlier, there were reports that Sehwag had begun to remain aloof because captain MS Dhoni did not heed to his advice on many an occasion during the first two Test matches.

India lost both the games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Sydney Cricket Ground and are now up against it when they take on Australia at the WACA in Perth.

Sehwag spoke to the newspaper, the Age, despite gag orders from the Indian cricket board and said that the rumours of issues were totally rubbish and that there were no such problems in the team. He said, "'When teams start losing then these kind of things come, but there is nothing true in that. We are playing as a team, and we are fine. I can't talk about anything else because there are rules, but you asked me about this and I can say it is rubbish. We are a unit, and we are carrying on for the next Test"

India’s number three Rahul Dravid also denied the rumours and called it (the rumours) a natural side-effect of consecutive losses. He said that the spirit in the team was good.

Earlier, Australian wicket-keeper Brad Haddin had noted that when the things weren’t going good for the Indian side, the players had a tendency to turn on each other.