{"id":3457,"date":"2022-02-22T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=194865"},"modified":"2022-02-22T19:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:03:55","slug":"indian-cricketers-association-strongly-condemns-threat-to-wriddhiman-saha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/indian-cricketers-association-strongly-condemns-threat-to-wriddhiman-saha\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Cricketers\u2019 Association strongly condemns threat to Wriddhiman Saha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Cricketers\u2019 Association (ICA), on Tuesday, issued a statement mentioning the condemnation of the \u201cthreatening\u201d message to veteran wicketkeeper\/batsman Wriddhiman Saha by a senior Indian journalist and welcomed the BCCI decision to probe the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The ICA has urged the body to take the strictest possible action in the matter and also proposed to cancel the journalist\u2019s accreditation to all BCCI events if required.<\/p>\n<p>The press release by the ICA comes after the tweet shared by Wriddhiman Saha, on Saturday, showing screenshots of the threatening messages by the senior Indian journalist. Saha expressed his disappointment towards journalism in his tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After all of my contributions to Indian cricket..this is what I face from a so called \u201cRespected\u201d journalist! This is where the journalism has gone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/woVyq1sOZX\">pic.twitter.com\/woVyq1sOZX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wriddhiman Saha (@Wriddhipops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wriddhipops\/status\/1495076230713917441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rahul Dravid opened up on Saha\u2019s comments, stating \u201cI think he deserved honesty and clarity and I didn\u2019t want him to read it from media. It\u2019s about conversations I constantly have with players. I don\u2019t expect players to always agree with everything I say about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ICA president Ashok Malhotra said that the occurrence with Saha is not acceptable and ask the respective organisation to take care of the happening as it should not be repeated. He also stated that ge would like Saha to disclose the name of the journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ICA Secretary Hitesh Majumder also provided full support to Saha and said , \u201cNo player should be subjected to such \u2018threats\u2019 from anyone in the media or elsewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICA strongly condemns 'threat' to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WriddhimanSaha?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WriddhimanSaha<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BCCI?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BCCI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndianCricketTeam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndianCricketTeam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TbgUVPZlt6\">pic.twitter.com\/TbgUVPZlt6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indian Cricketers' Association (@IndCricketAssoc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndCricketAssoc\/status\/1496027489277476866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICA, on 22 February 2022, strongly condemned the threat to Saha by senior Indian journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":26530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1348],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-wriddhiman-saha"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}