Saina Nehwal: IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders’ younger star Angkrish Raghuvanshi needed to pay a heavy worth for mocking India’s star shuttler Saina Nehwal. After getting upset with the trolling of followers, he needed to delete his submit and likewise apologize.
By AmleshNandan Sinha |
July 13, 2024 1:30 AM
Saina Nehwal: Younger batsman of Kolkata Knight Riders Angkrish Raghuvanshi Co Star Shuttler Saina Nehwal Making enjoyable of him proved expensive. He deleted his submit after receiving extreme criticism from followers on social media. Raghuvanshi made his IPL debut in 2024 and gave a memorable efficiency with the bat. In 10 innings, he scored 163 runs at a strike charge of 155.24. Raghuvanshi’s submit got here after Saina Nehwal’s remark through which she mentioned that cricket is given extra desire than different sports activities. Nehwal additionally mentioned that sports activities like badminton, tennis, basketball are bodily harder than cricketers. She questioned Indian followers at all times giving precedence to cricket over different sports activities.
Saina mentioned this
Saina Nehwal mentioned on the Nikhil Simha podcast that everybody desires to know what Saina is doing, what wrestlers and boxers are doing, what Neeraj Chopra, Mira Chanubai are doing. Everybody desires to know these gamers, as a result of we have now constantly carried out nicely and we have now been within the newspapers. I’ve achieved quite a bit and it is sort of a dream for me that I’ve executed this for India, the place there isn’t a sports activities tradition. Typically I really feel unhealthy that cricket will get a lot consideration.
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Nehwal mentioned that should you take a look at badminton, basketball, tennis and different sports activities, they’re very bodily tough. You do not even have time to choose up the shuttle and serve. You’re feeling like you’re respiration very laborious. Sports activities like cricket get a lot consideration, however I personally consider that ability is extra vital. Angkrish Raghuvanshi didn’t like these phrases of Nehwal and he wrote on X (former Twitter) that allow’s see what she is going to do when Bumrah throws a 150 kmph bumper ball on her head.
IPL star apologized
The KKR star later deleted the tweet and apologised to Nehwal. He then wrote that I apologise to everybody, I made my remark as a joke. Trying again, I believe it was actually an immature joke. I realise my mistake and I sincerely apologise. Nevertheless, this was not the primary time a participant has expressed his displeasure in direction of different sports activities. India’s badminton star Chirag Shetty had criticised the Maharashtra authorities for why the cricket star was honoured and never the opposite gamers.
