‘Completely fake & baseless’: Preity Zinta squashes ‘Rohit Sharma to PBKS’ rumours

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta put an finish to ‘Rohit Sharma to Punjab Kings’ rumours and requested the media to chorus from making such statements on Friday. In her publish on X, Punjab Kings co-owner revealed that she by no means mentioned Rohit in any interview and mentioned that latest rumours are ‘fake and baseless’.

An previous assertion from Preity emerged within the media the place she had revealed her want to signal the Indian cricket crew captain within the mega motion. But many circulated that assertion as contemporary information and completely different context forward of Punjab Kings’ newest IPL 2024 conflict in opposition to Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians in Mullanpur on Thursday. 

Punjab Kings skipper Shikhar Dhawan missed the Mumbai sport due to an harm which additional fueled the rumours. Zinta added that her crew solely focuses on profitable video games within the IPL 2024 and identified that Rohit changing Shikhar at PBKS rumours ‘seem in very poor style’.

“Fake news, all these articles are completely fake & baseless, Preity Zinta wrote in her X post. “I maintain Rohit Sharma in very excessive regard & am a giant fan of his, however I’ve NEVER DISCUSSED him in any interview nor made this STATEMENT! I even have plenty of respect for Shikhar Dhawan & he being at present injured, makes these articles seem in very poor style. These articles are an ideal instance of how misinformation is picked up with none verification & circulated on-line. I humbly request all Media to chorus from circulating this & embarrassing all involved events. All I would like to say is that we’ve got an ideal crew at present & our solely focus is to win video games & take advantage of out of IPL2024. Thank you.”

Rohit, 36, is tipped to enter the mega public sale subsequent 12 months and groups are anticipated to spend massive to safe his signature. The former MI skipper smashed an excellent unbeaten century in opposition to Chennai Super Kings and leads the scoring chart for his crew with 297 runs in seven innings at a strike fee of 164.08 within the IPL 2024.