After The Grade Cricketer took down their video podcast featuring Dan Christian and Kyle Jamieson on the request of the former due to alleged breach of contract, The Royal Challengers Bangalore have clarified that Christian has not been issued an official warning. The footage of the interview that had Christian talking about Virat Kohli’s captaincy was deleted from YouTube in its entirety after Christian informed the hosts of the podcast that he was issued a warning.
“RCB issued a gentle reminder regarding the team’s media protocol to all their players recently (following Christian’s interview). Like every season, that note had been shared with the players before IPL 2021 as well. No official warning was issued to Dan Christian or any other individual player,” an official from RCB clarified to indianexpress.com on Saturday.
“The primary media commitments of all our players are to Indian publications, and then if time permits, overseas publications are slotted in after those,” the official added.
The franchise had made the clarification after The Grade Cricketer put the allegation that Christian had asked them to take down the video on RCB’s warning.
In their latest episode, released on Saturday, The Grade Cricketer co-host Sam Perry said he was informed by Christian that he had been issued a warning for breach of contract.
“I was informed by Dan Christian that he has been issued a warning for breach of contract… Dan was asked to request us to take that interview down by RCB. On account for our respect for Dan, and his contract, we have taken it down,” he said.