Cricket journalist and talk show host Boria Majumdar

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  BENGALURU: Famous cricket journalist and talk show host Boria Majumdar is likely to be banned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)โ€ฆ

 

BENGALURU: Famous cricket journalist and talk show host Boria Majumdar is likely to be banned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for two years, according to a report in a daily. The three-member committee, formed by the BCCI, has found him guilty of threatening Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha for an interview.

The committee included the BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla, treasurer Arun Dhumal and apex council member Prabhtej Bhatia who probed Sahaโ€™s allegation.

According to the report, Majumdar will not be allowed inside cricket stadiums and wonโ€™t be given accreditation for Indiaโ€™s home matches.

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On February 19, 2022, Saha shared a post on Twitter which read: โ€œAfter all of my contributions to Indian cricketโ€ฆ this is what I face from a so-called โ€˜Respectedโ€™ journalist! This is where journalism has gone.โ€

The post was accompanied by a screenshot which included messages which he had received from a journalist.

One of the messages said, โ€œYou did not call. Never again will I interview you. I donโ€™t take insults kindly. And I will remember this.โ€

โ€œWe will be informing all state units of the Indian cricket board to not allow him inside stadiums. He wonโ€™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,โ€ a top BCCI official told the daily.

Saha did not name the journalist on Twitter but identified Majumdar while deposing before the committee.