The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is likely to impose a two-year ban on veteran sports journalist Boria Majumdar for sending intimidating texts to India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha over an interview request.

In February, Saha had shared a screenshot of his private chat with an unnamed journalist who sent him threats for not agreeing to give an interview over his exclusion from the Team India Test squad.

After the incident, many fans and pundits came out in support of the veteran glovesman and the Indian board initiated a probe into the matter.

Last month, BCCI’s three-member committee met Saha and probed into his allegations against the unnamed journalist.

Meanwhile, Boria himself took to Twitter to clarify that he was the one who sent those texts to Saha and alleged that the latter tampered with the screenshots to gain public sympathy.

However, the latest report published in The Indian Express suggests that the three-member BCCI committee has found the journalist guilty and he will now face the consequences.

“We will be informing all state units of the Indian cricket board to not allow him inside stadiums. He won’t be given media accreditation for home matches and we will also be writing to ICC to blacklist him. Players will be asked not to engage with him,” a top BCCI official told The Sunday Express on condition of anonymity.

Sharing his screenshot on Twitter, Wriddhiman Saha had written: “After all of my contributions to Indian cricket… this is what I face from a so-called ‘Respected’ journalist! This is where journalism has gone.”

One of the messages in the screenshot read, “You did not call. Never again will I interview you. I don’t take insults kindly. And I will remember this”, which led to former India cricketers like Ravi Shastri and Virender Sehwag extending their support to Saha.