The veteran Indian wicket-keeper batter, Wriddhiman Saha has decided that he will not be revealing the name he journalist to the BCCI, as and when the cricket board communicates with him over his tweet that has become arguably Indian cricket’s biggest talking point at the moment. On Monday, The Indian Express reported that the BCCI would ask the wicketkeeper-batsman to reveal the identity of the unnamed person who purportedly sent a string of WhatsApp messages to the cricketer, demanding an interview.
Saha later posted a screenshot of the messages on his Twitter handle. During a recent conversation with the Indian Express, Wriddhiman Saha said, “I haven’t received any communication from the BCCI yet. If they ask me to reveal the name (of the journalist), I would tell them it was never my intention to harm somebody’s career, to pull a person down. That’s why I didn’t reveal the name in my tweet. That’s not the teaching of my parents.”
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He added: “The main purpose of my tweet was to expose the fact that there’s someone in the media who does such things, disrespecting a player’s wish. It wasn’t fair, which I wanted to tell through my tweets. He who has done it knows it very well. I posted those tweets because I didn’t want the players to face such things. I wanted to convey the message that what has been done was wrong and no one else should do it again.”
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
On Saturday, the 37-year-old was dropped from the Test team for the upcoming two-match series against Sri Lanka. The tweet was posted on the same day, and captioned it as: “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.” One of the messages from the unnamed journalist had said: “You did not call. Never again will I interview you. I don’t take insults kindly. And I will remember this.”
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
Saha received enormous support from the cricketing fraternity after this, from Ravi Shastri to Virender Sehwag. Shastri, the former India team head coach, in fact, urged BCCI president Sourav Ganguly “to dive in”.
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Wriddhiman Saha said he didn’t have any conversation with Ganguly over the last few days. However, former India spinner Pragyan Ojha, currently the Indian Cricketers Association’s (ICA) representative on the IPL Governing Council, called him.
