“I haven’t received any communication from the BCCI yet” – Wriddhiman Saha

The experienced Indian wicket-keeper batter, Wriddhiman Saha has been in the news in recent times ever since he has allegedly claimed of getting threatened by a famous journalist. However, he has decided not to reveal the name of the journalist to the BCCI, when the cricket board will communicate with him over his tweet that has become arguably one of the biggest talking points right now.

On Monday, The Indian Express reported that the BCCI would ask him to reveal the identity of the unnamed person who has sent a string of WhatsApp messages to the cricketer, demanding an interview. Saha later shared a screenshot of the messages on his official Twitter handle.

“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 told The Indian Express.

He further added, “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.”

On Saturday, the 37-year-old was dropped from the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka at home. And, he tweeted on the same, stating, “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 from the unnamed reporter had stated: “You did not call. Never again will I interview you. I don’t take insults kindly. And I will remember this.”

However, Wriddhiman Saha has received a lot of support from the cricketing fraternity after this – be it Ravi Shastri or Virender Sehwag. Shastri, the former India team head coach, in fact, asked BCCI president Sourav Ganguly “to dive in” as well.

Saha, however, said that he didn’t have any conversation with Sourav Ganguly over the last few days. Meanwhile, former India spinner Pragyan Ojha, currently the Indian Cricketers Association’s (ICA) representative on the IPL Governing Council, called him too.

“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 concluded.