Punishment For Misconduct: BCCI instructs manager Subramaniam to return home from WI

In a first in Indian cricket, the national team's administrative manager Sunil Subramanium was on Wednesday asked by the BCCI to return midway from the ongoing tour of West Indies for allegedly misbehaving with senior officials from the country's High Commissions in the Caribbean.

Subramanium will have to appear before BCCI CEO Rahul Johri in Mumbai and offer an explanation for his alleged high-handedness while dealing with senior Indian Foreign Service officers, a top BCCI official told PTI. The IFS officials had reached out to him with the government's request for a video shoot by players to promote 'water conservation'.

"The Indian team had a fairly long shoot on 'Water Conservation' project and he needed to oversee that. Once that was over, he was sent an e-mail instructing him to choose the earliest available flight options. There is no chance that he is staying back," the senior Board official said.

It also remains to be seen whether Subramanium, who is a shortlisted candidate ..