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 and Shami were a part of the Mohun Bagan AC club team which had faced Bhowanipore Club in the first-ever pink-ball day-night match in India.
In the recently concluded series against the Proteas, which India won 3-0, Saha drew a lot of appreciation as his efforts behind the wicket had left even his teammates amused.
While bad light did force the players to go off the field after the Indians asked for an extra 30 minutes at the fall of the eighth wicket, the South Africans are only delaying the inevitable.
Wriddhiman Saha is the best wicket-keeper in Test cricket and stands way above his national team counterpart Rishabh Pant, says an analysis website.
Saha last played for India in the first Test of their 2018 tour of South Africa in January as the first-choice wicketkeeper in the longest format of the game but a shoulder injury that required surgery kept him out for more than a year.
