On Saturday Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha from Bengal received threatening messages from a journo who swore to never interview him again and also messaged in a threatening tone that he will remember that.
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. pic.twitter.com/woVyq1sOZX
— Wriddhiman Saha (@Wriddhipops) February 19, 2022
A day after Saha tweeted a screenshot of the message from someone he described as “a respected journalist”, who appeared to be requesting an exclusive interview, we now know that the BCCI will ask him to reveal the unknown person’s identity before deciding what to do.
A number of former cricketers have offered their support to Saha and asked him to reveal the identity of the journalist. The respected former players like Pragyan Ojha, Harbhajan Singh , Ravi Shashtri and others have come in support of the Indian cricketer and tweeted for him.
Please name him wriddhi! I promise you as a representative of players, I will make sure our cricket community boycotts this so called journalist!! https://t.co/XmorYAyGvW
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha) February 20, 2022
Extremely sad. Such sense of entitlement, neither is he respected nor a journalist, just chamchagiri.
With you Wriddhi. https://t.co/A4z47oFtlD— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 20, 2022
Wridhi you just name the person so that the cricket community knows who operates like this. Else even the good ones will be put under suspicion.. What kind of journalism is this ? @BCCI @Wriddhipops @JayShah @SGanguly99 @ThakurArunS players should be protected https://t.co/sIkqtIHsvt
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) February 20, 2022
Shocking a player being threatened by a journo. Blatant position abuse. Something that's happening too frequently with #TeamIndia. Time for the BCCI PREZ to dive in. Find out who the person is in the interest of every cricketer. This is serious coming from ultimate team man WS https://t.co/gaRyfYVCrs
— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc) February 20, 2022
Recently there is an update that the BCCI has jumped into action. In an interview with News9 a BCCI treasurer said, “We are serious about the matter (Journalist message to W Saha) and are looking into it. First we have to get to know who it is, what the context was and accordingly we will take action.”
Saha’s pullout from the first round of Bengal’s Ranji fixtures was misconstrued as him losing motivation after both coach Rahul Dravid and Sharma informed him that his international days were over. According to the wicketkeeper, the pullout was due to personal reasons as his wife just recovered from dengue.
India’s decision not to select him for the Test series against Sri Lanka is at the center of the latest controversy in Indian cricket.
