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Dhoni has admitted he speaks with the media only because his job requires him to

Melbourne: Defending champions India may be one of the most high-profile teams at the World Cup, but their reluctance to interact with the media has frustrated the large contingent of travelling reporters. (World Cup Coverage)

The players have not spoken publicly since skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni addressed the mandatory post-match conference after the victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in Adelaide last Sunday. (Fletcher is Boss, Team India Denies Rumours of Rifts)

When the squad's media manager puts out a release detailing practice times and venues, he does not fail to emphasise there will be 'no media activity' after training. (South Africa Legend Plots Team India's Downfall)

The earliest a member of the team will speak now is at the next mandatory pre-match media conference on Saturday ahead of the key Pool B match against South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground the next day.

A media release said Dhoni will skip the conference, leaving his vice-captain Virat Kohli to take questions. (Dangerous India Can be Title Contenders: Ponting)

While other teams organise regular media interactions during the six-week tournament, the Indian squad is apparently following a diktat from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to speak publicly only when it is mandated by rules.

"I think it all boils down to the mistrust of the media," said veteran Indian journalist R. Kaushik of the WisdenIndia website. "There has to be a reason for it, but I don't know what.

"Maybe they feel players are misquoted for the sake of creating a controversy. But it is a challenge reporting on the Indian team."

Dhoni, one of the most popular cricketers in India, rarely gives one-to-one interviews and has even gone on record to say he speaks to the media only because his job requires him to.

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Rocker John Mayer struggles to control his use of social media because he considers himself a "recovering ego addict".

The 'Your Body Is a Wonderland' singer admits he let his behaviour get out of control early on in his career because he used to feed off all of the praise and adoration he received from fans online, but it wasn't until his candid 2010 interview with Playboy magazine, in which he dished on all of his celebrity ex-girlfriends and famously described Jessica Simpson as "sexual napalm", that he realised he needed to take a step back from the limelight.

He quit Twitter and moved from Los Angeles to Montana, where he has since refocused his attention on his music, and Mayer is adamant he is nothing like the man he once was.

Discussing the moment he realised he had hit rock bottom, he tells US newsman Ronan Farrow, "I went, 'All right, dude, you did a couple interviews where you were out of touch and you were being a ham, and you were basically breakdancing into a nitroglycerin plant, right?'"

Mayer, who is reportedly dating Katy Perry, claims he was never the playboy he was portrayed to be in the press, but he played up his wild behaviour to fit the part - because he thought that's what fans wanted to see.

Asked if he considers himself a womaniser, he replies, "No. Absolutely not. But when you're crafty and you're clever and you go, 'Well, I'm just going to be as strange as they think I am,' then you lose [yourself]. Number one: You're not playing music anymore. Number two: You're not feeling anything honestly. And number three: You're not saying anything honestly."

He returned to Twitter last year, but Mayer admits he has to remind himself every day not to get too drawn in to social media.

He says, "I'm a recovered ego addict and the only way that I can be sure that I don't relapse is to admit that I constantly have this ego addiction every day. So I do the Grammys and then I go home, because if I stay I get high again [on the approval].

"You've already looked through Twitter, everyone says it's great, and then you get low again because you can't stop looking, so I'm a recovered ego addict."

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The former director railed against Craig Whyte when they shared a boardroom only to be booted out by the disgraced former owner.

But he is back at the club he has always supported and has been handed the interim chairman role by King.

Here in the post-victory press conference he speaks of his delight and relief of finally winning control after a four-year-long fight with the men who have tarnished the name of his beloved team.

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