Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has responded to the futile social mediathreats made by an Indian user to a member of the Australian national team.According to details, security officials exposed an Indian national whosent threatening messages to the family of an Australian cricketer onInstagram, saying that they will face severe consequences for touringPakistan.
PCB responded that the Australian Cricket Board is completely aware of thesituation. They added that PCB, Cricket Australia, and the governmentagencies of both the countries have investigated the nature and source ofthreat that was made to a family member of an Australian player and thefutile threats are not considered a risk at all.
They added that a proper security plan has been put in place to tackle suchsocial media threats and they have located the source of the threat. PCBconcluded that no further comment will be made at this moment.
According to reports, a fake Instagram account “jyot.isharma391” was usedto send threatening messages to Australian all-rounder, Ashton Agar’s wife.
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The threatening messages sent by the Indian user were of similar nature tothe ones made to the New Zealand cricket team on their tour of the countryin 2021. The conspiracy led to New Zealand pulling out of the tour on theday of the first match of the tour.
This time around though, the security officials are taking no chances atall and are revealing the names of the people who are trying to damage thereputation of the country.
