Both the matches of India vs South Africa ODI series have been exciting. Team India won the first match played in Ranchi and South Africa won the second ODI played in Raipur. Now the third match to be held in Visakhapatnam on Saturday, 6th December will be the series decider. Indian players have reached Visakhapatnam, but meanwhile a video of them is going viral on social media. Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma are being taught to climb the escalator by carrying their luggage themselves. This is making fun of the airport management.
Indian players faced problems at the airport
The viral video is said to be of Raipur Airport, where the escalator was not working. Whereas Indian and South African players had reached here only 3 days ago. This video is from the time when Indian players were going from Raipur to Visakhapatnam for the third ODI. It is seen in the video that the escalator is closed and not running.
It is very difficult to climb the escalator with luggage. It is seen in the video that Gautam Gambhir also had to carry his luggage himself. All the players including Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma had to carry their luggage on the escalator. Raipur Airport Management is also being made fun of on social media.
This is the escalator at Raipur airport which is not working, because of which the Indian team players have to carry their luggage and walk up. It’s such a big and modern airport, yet they can’t even fix one escalator. And even after knowing that the Indian team was going to… pic.twitter.com/WzcrI6P7uO
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Tagging the social media page of Raipur Airport, a user wrote, “This is the escalator of Raipur Airport which is not working. Due to which the players of the Indian team have to carry their luggage themselves to go up. This is such a big and modern airport, yet they cannot even get an escalator repaired. Despite knowing that the Indian team is going to come here, they did not get it repaired. How can they create such a big problem?”
