The Board of Control for Cricket in India could feel embarrassed but the journalist whom it has banned for two years for bullying Wriddhiman Saha was said to have been paid a king's ransom early in this millennium for writing a book which had one of its former chiefs, Jagmohan Dalmiya, unabashedly praised up to the sky.
Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag has reacted to wicketkeeper-batter Wriddhiman Saha's tweet of slamming an unnamed 'respected journalist'.
It's raining milestones in the IPL with Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, and Wriddhiman Saha crossing batting marks in the league and the T20 format.
But when calibrated evaluations of competing cricketers’ attributes lead up to a conclusion where narrowly defined niches are pointed at for players good enough to be in the national mix, you are apt to be left wondering if the batsmen as well as the wicketkeepers are not befuddled.
Although there was no word on his fitness, the BCCI tweeted a video of Wriddhiman Saha playing shots off balls hurled at him by the team support staff.
Saha will be required only in the New Zealand Test series, beginning on 21 February, and he may recover complete fitness till then.
While he has received unflinching backing from the team management, it has come to the conclusion that Pant needs special attention.
35-year-old wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha underwent the surgery in Mumbai on Tuesday. The first-ever day-night Test in India was played in Kolkata last week.
The BCCI Medical team has suggested that Shikhar Dhawan needs some more time for his stitches to come off and his wound to heal completely.
Saha’s 100th victim was none other than Shadman Islam. A Umesh Yadav delivery took the outside edge of Islam’s bat and Saha made no mistake behind the stumps to complete his 100th dismissal.
