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[suraj]

What I know about RD is that he stays on a different floor from the rest of the players because he feels that a captain must maintain a distance from the juniors and VS does the bulk of the mixing with youngsters. This was in an English interview I read sometime back -- I do not have the URL so feel free not to believe me

That is an incorrect (and mischevious) statement.

As I said, I read in in an interview. Nothing mischievous about it, unless you mean RD is mischievous.
Look, you may have reasons for thinking it is wrong. Maybe you know RD's room number and those of the rest. I do not know that. All I am saying is that I read an interview where RD said this *himself*.
I never said this was true for all tours. Perhaps it was true for that one tour or even one venue and he was asked about it. I will try to dig up the URL but I am not sure if I can.
-P

Can you tell me which tour and/or which venue?

It was clearly not the case in St. Kitts - the one test I saw in person and was visiting the team hotel each day..and freely mingling with players. Most of the players(RD with his wife and kid included) were on the same floor...and there was nothing Jr or Sr about floor assignment. 
As a matter of fact, each junior was assigned a senior mentor/"chaperone" (for example, YS for VRV) ...who was with them most of the time while hanging out in the hotel lobby or bar area, eating meals at the hotel, going out for dinner etc. It was very common to see a RD(with his family) or VS(with his wife) or VVS or AK or HS or YS with a "junior in the tow" while at the hotel.

Also, I know in places other than WI(including India), where security has to be tighter, the entire team is preferably kept on the same floor for security reasons.  They cordon of the floor and access is restricted (and I know that at Taj Krishna in Hyderabad, you had to go through a separate metal detector placed outside the elevators of the floor the team was staying in!)
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I thought the reporter was being mischevious .. as this item,in general, is incorrect and there is no "real" news value in highlighting this item. He is just taking panga.

Thx for bringing the real perspective LN- I also found the report mere sensationalism

[dhruvdeepak]

who does raina share a room with 

[justforkix]

who does raina share a room with 

I think Raina is shared by everyone.

[toney]

What I know about RD is that he stays on a different floor from the rest of the players because he feels that a captain must maintain a distance from the juniors and VS does the bulk of the mixing with youngsters. This was in an English interview I read sometime back -- I do not have the URL so feel free not to believe me

That is an incorrect (and mischevious) statement.

As I said, I read in in an interview. Nothing mischievous about it, unless you mean RD is mischievous.
Look, you may have reasons for thinking it is wrong. Maybe you know RD's room number and those of the rest. I do not know that. All I am saying is that I read an interview where RD said this *himself*.
I never said this was true for all tours. Perhaps it was true for that one tour or even one venue and he was asked about it. I will try to dig up the URL but I am not sure if I can.
-P

Does he stay upstairs or downstairs relative to the rest of the players? That might be important before judging on this issue.

Really? Or is an attempt at humor? In that case, good one 

-P

It was attempted humour