{"id":9390,"date":"2025-10-28T19:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=652478"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:56:28","slug":"mohammed-shami-on-media-controversy-mai-bolunga-to-bawal-ho-jayega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/mohammed-shami-on-media-controversy-mai-bolunga-to-bawal-ho-jayega\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Shami on media controversy: \u2018Mai bolunga to bawal ho jayega\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week of speculation around his fitness and non-selection, Indian pacer <strong>Mohammed Shami<\/strong> has finally chosen to stay quiet, saying he doesn\u2019t want to fuel further controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after taking <strong>8 wickets, including a 5-wicket haul<\/strong>, against Gujarat in the ongoing <strong>Ranji Trophy match at Eden Gardens<\/strong>, Shami said, \u201c<em>I always end up being in controversies \u2014 you (the media) have made me that kind of bowler. Mai bolunga to bawal ho jayega (If I speak, I will get in trouble). Now what can I say? I can\u2019t even blame you; everyone does the same thing. On social media, people say anything they want.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pacer\u2019s comments come days after his public disagreement with <strong>Chairman of Selectors Ajit Agarkar<\/strong>, who had said the <strong>BCCI medical team<\/strong> didn\u2019t consider Shami fit for international selection. Shami, in turn, had stated that it wasn\u2019t his responsibility to provide fitness updates, insisting that his job was to prepare and play when called upon.<\/p>\n<p>To ease tensions, the <strong>BCCI sent RP Singh<\/strong>, the newly appointed Central Zone selector, to Kolkata for a one-on-one discussion with the veteran pacer. The meeting appears to have had a calming effect, as Shami has since chosen not to escalate the issue further.<\/p>\n<p>With Shami back in rhythm in domestic cricket, his performance against Gujarat could pave the way for a return to the national setup once he receives medical clearance from the BCCI\u2019s team of specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week of speculation around his fitness and non-selection, Indian pacer Mohammed Shami has finally chosen to stay quiet,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":32041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}