Wriddhiman Saha had recently shared a screenshot of his private chat with an unnamed journalist who sent him threats.
The veteran wicketkeeper was threatened for not agreeing to talk to the unnamed journalist over his exclusion from the Team India Test squad for the upcoming Sri Lanka series.
For the last couple of days, Saha’s tweet has become the biggest talking point within the Indian cricket fraternity and the BCCI is reportedly planning to take action against the journalist.
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Amid the recent development, Saha has decided not to reveal the identity of the journalist, as and when the cricket board communicates with him over his tweet.
“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. 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,” Saha told The Indian Express.
“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,” he added.
Wriddhiman Saha didn’t find his name in the Indian squad announced for the upcoming two-Test series against Sri Lanka on Saturday (February 19). He posted the tweet on the same day, which states: “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.”
Another message from the unnamed journalist reads: “You did not call. Never again will I interview you. I don’t take insults kindly. And I will remember this.”
Since then, the 37-year-old Saha has received support from the big names in the Indian cricket fraternity, including Ravi Shastri and Virender Sehwag. In fact, Shastri urged BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to look into the matter.
While Saha didn’t have any chat with Ganguly over the issue, he received a call from former spinner Pragyan Ojha, who is the member of the IPL governing council and the representative of the Indian Cricketers Association (ICA).
“Ojha called me and said, ‘I won’t ask you about anything which is personal. If you feel that you want to go further on this or pursue the matter legally, the BCCI would support you’. I told him that at the moment I wasn’t willing and gave him the reasons. He responded to it saying, it was completely my decision,” Saha said.
(Inputs from The Indian Express)
