Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 21: The newest issue in Indian cricket revolves around a slew of WhatsApp messages supposedly sent by a journalist to Wriddhiman Saha, the Bengal wicketkeeper who was left out of Team India for the Test series against Sri Lanka.
It has been learned that the BCCI will urge Saha to reveal the identity of the anonymous individual before deciding on its course of action, a day after he posted a snapshot of conversations from someone he described as “a respected journalist” who appeared to be demanding an exclusive interview.
Saha, meanwhile, has received support from former cricketers who have expressed solidarity and urged him to reveal the journalist’s name.
“we will make sure our cricket community boycotts this so called journalist!”, former India spinner Pragyan Ojha, the Indian cricketers’ association representative, tweeted,
On Saturday evening, Saha had posted the screenshot with a tweet, “After all of my contributions to Indian cricket..this is what I face from a so called “Respected” journalist! This is where the journalism has gone.”
After Saha’s post whipped up a storm on social media,
Former cricketer Virendra Sehwag tweeted: “Extremely sad. Such sense of entitlement, neither is he respected nor a journalist, just chamchagiri. With you Wriddhi.”
Snehasish Ganguly, secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), said Saha should not have publicly commented on a private conversation between him and the selectors or the BCCI. He also stated that the wicketkeeper should have competed in the Ranji Trophy’s first round.
