NEW DELHI – Indian Cricket Board has been left fuming with the ICC over thederogatory tweet.
This is unfortunate that an objectionable post has been attributed to theICC official social media account. Not done. We did bring up the matter tothe ICC’s notice,” said a top BCCI official.
The International Cricket Council on Wednesday launched an investigationinto a social media post relating to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that wentout from its official handle.
“ICC is dismayed at a non-cricket related tweet appearing on its Twitterfeed earlier today. We would like to extend our sincere apologies to anyonewho was offended during the short space of time it was up,” ICC said in atweet after removing the post, the screenshot of which was shared multipletimes. “We have launched an investigation into how this happened,” theworld body stated.
The tweet that appeared this morning related to Modi and self-proclaimedgodman Asaram Bapu, who was on Wednesday convicted by a Jodhpur court forraping a teenager at his ashram in 2013.
As soon as the tweet appeared, many users of the platform asked who washandling the ICC account, and the faux pas also left the Indian CricketBoard fuming.