An investigation by Vishvas News found this claim to be false. Former Australian cricket team captain Ricky Ponting did not call the Indian Cricket Board a “cricket mafia”.
New Delhi (Vishvas News). In the Cricket World Cup (ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023), Australia defeated India and won the title for the sixth time. A post then went viral on social media saying that in an interview given to Fox News, former Australian cricket team captain Ricky Ponting called the Indian Cricket Board a mafia.
An investigation by Vishvas News found this claim to be false. Ponting did not call the BCCI a ‘cricket mafia’.
What is viral?
Facebook user Manoj Bharti Gupta Gupta) viral to the post share Did which read “Ricky Ponting on Fox Cricket: It’s a victory for justice against the cricket mafia. Your money and power aren’t winning world championships for you yet. How embarrassing.” (Ricky Ponting on Fox Cricket: This is a victory for justice against the cricket mafia. Your money and power still haven’t won the World Cup for you. What a shame.)
an investigation
To check for viral posts, we first searched by keywords. We did not find a similar statement for the name Ricky Ponting on Google. We fox sports Also searched the website if Ricky Ponting gave a similar interview after the 2023 World Cup? And here we didn’t find any such news where Ricky Ponting called the Indian Cricket Board a mafia. However, we found a news story on this website dated November 20, which said that the Indian pitch had been tampered with. In the same news, Ricky Ponting was also quoted as saying, “Australian cricket icon Ricky Ponting said the prepared pitch had ‘backfired on India’. (Australian cricket icon Ricky Ponting said the prepared pitch “backfired on India”.)”
Us au.sports.yahoo.com But I got this full statement from Ricky Ponting on the pitch. In the news, it was written, “Speaking on commentary, Ponting said the pitch selection ‘backfired on India’. He commented: “It was very, very sub-continental conditions today. Wicket preparation which probably ended up backfiring on India, to be perfectly honest.” (During the commentary, Ponting said that the choice of pitch “had an adverse effect on India”. He said: “There was a lot of sub-continental conditions. The preparation of this wicket had an adverse effect on India.”) In this news too, the BCCI has been accused of mafia. Nowhere is it said to say.
Then we also searched Ricky Ponting’s social media. And here we did not find such a post in which he called the BPPP a mafia.
We spoke to Dainik Jagran’s sports editor Abhishek Tripathi about this. He confirmed that the viral claim was misleading and that during any interview or commentary, Ricky Ponting had not referred to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as a mafia.
The user Manoj Bharti Gupta, who shared the viral video with misleading claims, is followed by more than three thousand people on Facebook. User is a resident of Delhi.
conclusion:
An investigation by Vishvas News found this claim to be false. Former Australian cricket team captain Ricky Ponting did not call the Indian Cricket Board a “cricket mafia”.
- View claim: Ricky Ponting on Fox Cricket: It’s a victory for justice against the cricket mafia.
- Requested by: Facebook user Manoj Bharti Gupta
- Fact Check: A lie
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