Saha-Journalist row | Boria Majumdar to face two-year ban from BCCI: Reports

In the shocking turn of events, Indian sports journalist Boria Majumdar, who was in the spotlight for quite some time owing to all the wrong reasons, is expected to face two years ban from the Indian Cricket Board after a three-member BCCI committee found him guilty of threatening India wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha for an interview request, the Indian Express reported.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) formed a committee comprising vice-president Rajeev Shukla, treasurer Arun Dhumal and apex council member Prabhtej Bhatia to interrogate the issue as claimed by Saha earlier this year. 

“We will be informing all state units of the Indian cricket board to not allow him inside stadiums. He won’t be given media accreditation for home matches and we will also be writing to ICC to blacklist him. Players will be asked not to engage with him,” a top BCCI official told The Sunday Express on condition of anonymity.

Earlier, Boria Majumdar released a video in which he said he would serve a legal defamation notice against cricketer Wriddhiman Saha for damaging his reputation. 

The development comes after the BCCI started investigating a threat that Saha claimed he had received on WhatsApp from a journalist threatening not to interview the cricketer ever again since he had not answered back to the journalist’s request for an interview.    

The 37-year-old Bengal wicket-keeper, on February 19, shared a Twitter post saying, “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.”

Later, after a month, Boria Majumdar took to Twitter to share a video claiming that Saha had “doctored” the WhatsApp screenshots that he had shared on Twitter and said the wicket-keeper batter is trying to damage his reputation. He will take legal action against him.