Indian captain and Mumbai Indians opening batter Rohit Sharma has lashed out at the official broadcaster for the 2024 version of the IPL, Star Sports, for being intrusive and has accused them for breach of privateness after airing his dialog together with his mates together with Dhawal Kulkarni forward of his aspect’s last league stage sport in opposition to the Lucknow Super Giants on Friday, May 17 at the Wankhede Stadium.
The incident occurred earlier than the sport when Rohit was speaking to Kulkarni and a few extra folks throughout coaching as he was having some enjoyable. As quickly as Rohit noticed the digicam close to his group, he folded his palms and requested the cameraman to cease the audio as he already has been on the receiving finish for considered one of such movies the place he was heard saying some not so nice phrases. The audio had stopped for a bit however resumed to catch that half the place he mentioned, “ek audio ki wajah se pehle se hi waat lagi hui hai (I have already suffered because of one audio).”
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 A few days later, Rohit has lashed out at the broadcaster saying that the obsession with views and engagement will break the trust between the fans, cricketers and the sport itself.Â
“The lives of cricketers have become so intrusive that cameras are now recording every step and conversation we are having in privacy with our friends and colleagues, at training or on match days,” Rohit wrote on Twitter (now X.)
“Despite asking Star Sports to not record my conversation, it was and was also then played on air, which is a breach of privacy. The need to get exclusive content and focused only on views and engagement will one day break the trust between the fans, cricketers and cricket. Let better sense prevail,” Rohit added.
Rohit has been recognized for his candidness, whether or not on the discipline or together with his mates and household on the floor and off it in the pressers as effectively and his wit and humour, generally has landed him in a soup due to the presence of issues getting heard on stump mic on the discipline.
