Andhra Pradesh cricketer Prudhviraj KN expressed himself to be the cricketer against whom Hanuma Vihari made an allegation through his Instagram story of being forced to resign as captain in between Ranji Trophy 2024. The 24-year-old keeper-batter took to his own official Instagram account and brushed them aside as false allegations as well.

However, Vihari wrote a long message on his Instagram handle, stating that he shouted at the ’17th player’, who happened to be the son of a politician, which prompted his resignation. With the right-handed batter denying any personal abuse against his teammate, he has declared refusing to play for Andhra ever again as well.

Hanuma Vihari’s Instagram post:

Meanwhile, Prudhviraj identified himself as the targeted player through his Instagram and stated that he would never tolerate any vulgar language and mocked Hanuma Vihari for playing sympathy games as well.

“Hello everyone I’m that guy, you guys are searching in the comment box, whatever you guys heard is absolutely false, no one is higher than the game and my self respect is much more bigger than anything, personal attacks and vulgar language is unacceptable in any kind of human platform. Everyone in the team knows what happened that day, Nuvu inthaku minchi emmi pikkulevu mr so called champion. Play this sympathy games however you want.”

Andhra Pradesh, on the other hand, lost to Madhya Pradesh by 4 runs in what was the 4th quarter-final of Ranji Trophy 2024 as well. Madhya Pradesh managed only 234 in their first innings but they bowled the opposition out for 172 in response as well.