{"id":21660,"date":"2024-04-20T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=432466"},"modified":"2024-04-20T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T06:11:49","slug":"ipl-2024-preity-zinta-puts-an-end-on-alleged-rohit-sharma-statement-calls-it-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2024-preity-zinta-puts-an-end-on-alleged-rohit-sharma-statement-calls-it-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2024: Preity Zinta puts an end\u00a0on alleged Rohit Sharma statement, calls it\u00a0\u2018FAKE\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preity Zinta, co-owner of the Punjab Kings, has responded to the circulating fake quote referencing her alleged statement about wanting Rohit Sharma on her team, calling it \u201c#Fakenews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amidst concerns about Sharma\u2019s future with the Mumbai Indians, Zinta states her admiration for the cricketer and emphasises that she has never addressed him in an interview or made such a statement.<\/p>\n<p>She advises the media to verify material before it is distributed and emphasises the team\u2019s commitment to\u00a0winning games in the IPL 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Fakenews?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Fakenews<\/a> ! All these articles are completely fake & baseless. I hold Rohit Sharma in very high regard & am a big fan of his, but I have NEVER DISCUSSED him in any interview nor made this STATEMENT ! I also have a lot of respect for Shikhar Dhawan & he being currently injured ,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYbyV4eqHU\">pic.twitter.com\/VYbyV4eqHU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Preity G Zinta (@realpreityzinta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realpreityzinta\/status\/1781330285117796458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201c#Fakenews ! All these articles are completely fake & baseless. I hold Rohit Sharma in very high regard & am a big fan of his, but I have NEVER DISCUSSED him in any interview nor made this STATEMENT ! \u201cI also have a lot of respect for Shikhar Dhawan, & he being currently injured , makes these articles appear in very poor taste. These articles are a perfect example of how misinformation is picked up without any verification & circulated online. I humbly request all Media to refrain from circulating this & embarrassing all concerned parties ?? All I want to say is that we have a great team currently & our only focus is to win games & make the most out of #IPL2024 Thank you. @PunjabKingsIPL\u201d She wrote on her official X formerly known as Twitter account.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newDesktopStoryAdBox lozad active\" data-toggle-class=\"active\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1685609777763-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CPaY3a2I0IUDFWwXgwMdaZ8Ilg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Kings co-owner Preity Zinta disputes a circulating false comment attributed to her regarding batsman Rohit Sharma, labelling\u00a0it \u2018fake news.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":42065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3720,286,796,3221],"class_list":["post-21660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl-2024","tag-mumbai-indians","tag-preity-zinta","tag-tata-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}