BCCI will investigate Saha quote and tweet; wants action to be taken against those found guilty | Cricket News – Times of India

The BCCI intends to delve deep into the disaster and additionally discover out if every other cricketer has gone by way of an identical expertise. “Saha is a contracted cricketer of the BCCI. The onus is on the Board to not let its own player down. That aside, if there is any kind of a nexus at work here, one has to look into it,” say officers monitoring these developments.
In his interview to ESPNCricinfo on Sunday, after he was dropped from the aspect, Saha mentioned: “The biggest shock was that when I scored 61 against New Zealand in Kanpur despite being injured, Dadi (as BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is referred to), texted to congratulate me and said I didn’t need to worry about anything till he is there. Naturally, I was shocked at what I was told immediately one series after.”

The query BCCI officers are asking proper now could be ‘in what capability did Ganguly give Saha any assurances on choice?’
“The Rahul Dravid-bit is understandable. He’s the national coach and may have wanted to keep his players in the loop. That’s between the coach and the players. What was the need for a BCCI official to speak with Saha and assure him of a place in the side? ‘I don’t need to worry till he’s there’. Kitni galat baat hai yeh (How wrong it is to say something like this),” officers add.

This improvement follows a current controversy when it got here to the fore that Ganguly had been attending choice committee conferences within the current previous.
“First the Virat incident happened, then all this. And then he’s (Saha) posted that tweet of the screenshot (of messages he received from a journalist). What the h*** is happening? The Board has to act because enough is enough,” say those monitoring developments.

Here is the WhatApp message Saha obtained (in verbatim): “Do an interview with me. Will be good. If you want to be democratic then I won’t push.
“They select one wicket-keeper. Whoever is one of the best. You strive to select 11 journalists which isn’t the beset in accordance to me. Choose whoever can assist probably the most.
(a missed name reveals on the screenshot of the chat)
“You did not call. Never again will I interview you. I don’t take insults kindly. And I will remember this. This wasn’t something ypu (sic) should have done”.
Several senior cricketers like Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, Aakash Chopra, and even former India coach Ravi Shastri got here out in help of Saha, urging that the mentioned journalist be named.

“Shocking a player being threatened by a journo. Blatant position abuse. Something that’s happening too frequently with #TeamIndia. Time for the BCCI PREZ to dive in. Find out who the person is in the interest of every cricketer. This is serious coming from the ultimate team man WS” – Shastri’s Tweet learn.

BCCI will method Saha and ask him to share the WhatsApp messages following which a forensic investigation will be known as for. “If the sender of those messages indeed happens to be a journalist covering Indian cricket, the Board will take steps towards banning him,” an official mentioned.

The Board’s greater fear right here is stemming from the truth that there might be extra cricketers going by way of related trauma. “It is also important to see if anybody else has gone through this,” he added.