Former Indian cricketer and the recently retired off-spinner Harbhajan Singh called out a journalist for talking about an unnamed ‘BCCI official’ becoming a part of the selection committee meetings and Indian cricket fans sided with the former athlete on this one.

When it comes to the game of international cricket, the Board of Control for Cricket in India or the BCCI are considered to be the most talked-about organisations in the world. They are often surrounded by all kinds of narratives and some of these storylines even make them feel like an evil mastermind brand that plots against individual players and takes out a personal vendetta against those who stand up to their injustice.

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Obviously, ‘most’ of these stories turn out to be nothing more than fake reports and it takes one press conference or one official statement from the Indian cricket board to dismiss such allegations and move about doing their jobs.

However, recently a journalist reported on Twitter that one of the BCCI officials continued to get himself involved with the selection committee meetings even though he knew that it was not the right thing to do and that he should have stayed away from the process.

For quite some time, a BCCI official kept inviting himself to selection committee meetings even when he knew he should have stayed away.

Captain and coach were helpless. Couldn't do anything. He had no business being there.

I hope such instances are not repeated in the future.

— KSR (@KShriniwasRao) January 26, 2022

The journalist goes on to say that the presence of the BCCI official in those meetings neutralised the authority of the captain and the head coach of the Indian cricket team, rendering them “helpless” during the team-selection proceedings.

As this tweet went viral with Indian cricket fans from all over the country responding to it with mixed emotions, Harbhajan Singh also ended up commenting on the post, asking the journalist to be more direct and give out the name of the ‘BCCI Official’ and also asking him how did he get to know about this juicy piece of inside information.

How do u know ? And who is that official ? https://t.co/4JaWtyjObb

— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) January 26, 2022

The journalist responded to Bhajji’s comments, asking the former cricketer to get in touch with some of his buddies from inside the BCCI, namely Virat Kohli, Ravi Shastri - the former Indian head coach, and the various selectors who were supposed to be in these meetings.

Great question. You must pose it to Virat, Ravi, BCCI & selectors also. I'm sure some of them won't mind sharing views. And when they do, please put it out here.

Indian cricket would be in far better place if these Qs were asked more regularly.

You can start with Virat & Ravi.

— KSR (@KShriniwasRao) January 26, 2022

However, such a response led to the fans siding with Singh’s argument. Here’s how some of them reacted:

Good question bhajji? @KShriniwasRao should tell the truth if he knows openly not conspiring always

— Msd Virat Fan (@PlayingXI3) January 26, 2022

Absolutely, this guy is like "guys I have a shocking news but I can't tell you, guess krlo "

And the news was Virat will miss ODIs to celebrate her daughter's bday

He always creates fanwars and behaves like what have I done

— Tanishq¹⁸ (@ItsMeTanishq) January 26, 2022

Bhajji pa ye KSR kuchh bhi tweet karta hai relevant rehne k liye

— Shelby ™ (@sportslover3000) January 26, 2022

Aaj expose kardo isko.

— Aditya (@Adityakrsaha) January 26, 2022

Good Question !!
If that's thing we must know about it and at same time we also need to know that how KSR could say so convincingly about it

— Dhruv Raj (@being_ingenious) January 26, 2022

Bhaiya kuch toh locha hai
Ya news leaker kon hai

— Rishabh Dahiya (@Rishabh96284899) January 26, 2022

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