Here's what MiD DAY finds out after speaking to the manager of Tequila Joe's, the St Lucia pub where Indian cricketers and fans were reportedly involved in an altercation recently
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has slapped show-cause notices on six Indian cricketers -- Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Rohit Sharma, Piyush Chawla and Ravindra Jadeja -- for a pub brawl in the West Indies.
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After crashing out of the ICC World Twenty20, the players went to a pub called Tequila Joe's at St Lucia in the Caribbean. Soon, fans taunted them verbally resulting, reports say, in a brawl. The incident happened after India's loss to Sri Lanka on May 11.
Michael Eutrope, manager of Tequila Joe's said, "Yes, the cricketers were here, but there was no brawl -- no pushing or shoving or any physical contact took place. But, words were exchanged between the cricketers and some people here, though, I may add that there were very few words in fact. We have two bouncers here and the matter was resolved quickly. I welcome the Indian cricketers back any time."
Eutrope, who was speaking on the phone from the pub, added, "You know we have got a lot of publicity because of this incident. People have been coming in to see the place, where this so-called brawl took place.
In one way it is nice that India knows about you because we are in the newspapers. But I do not know if all this is a good thing or a bad thing. I suppose it is good in one way and yet, in another way, it is not good because it says there was a fight in the pub, which is not true."
Eutrope was unaware of the disciplinary action on the players but said, "I will look up the headlines on the internet today. We are quite popular with the Indians here, especially those from Trinidad."
Tequila Joe's was incepted in December 2009 and serves Tex-Mex (Mexican) food, "which is very popular with Indians, especially because we serve vegetarian food too," added Eutrope. "We have 20 television sets and these were all beaming the cricket matches, so, that may explain why the cricketers came in here," he said.
