India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha said that he won’t reveal the name of the journalist, who threatened him for an interview, with the BCCI. He said that it might harm the journalist’s career which wasn’t his intention. He further said that he revealed the messages so that he/she would learn a lesson not to disrespect a player’s wish.
“It was never my intention to harm somebody’s career”- Wriddhiman Saha
“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,” Wriddhiman Saha spoke to 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 received a lot of support on social media from ex-cricketers and media persons. Saha also spoke to Pragyan Ojha, who is presently the Indian Cricketers Association’s (ICA) representative on the IPL Governing Council, about the matter.
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
“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.
Earlier, on Monday BCCI Treasurer Arun Dhumal told PTI that the BCCI will ask to reveal the identity of the journalist and investigate the matter further.
“Yes, we will ask Wriddhiman about his tweet and what is the real incident that has happened. We need to know if he was threatened and also the background and context of his tweet. I can’t say anything more. The secretary (Jay Shah) will certainly speak to Wriddhiman,” Arun Dhumal said.
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