Indian cricketers Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer on Wednesday paid the price for not paying heed to the BCCI diktat of playing domestic cricket. Iyer and Kishan were both axed from the central contracts announced by the BCCI. Both cricketers were surprisingly ignored, and that did not go down well with cricket fans who took to social media to bash the BCCI.
Ishan Kishan was in the middle of a cold war with the BCCI. The wicketkeeper-batter pulled out of India’s series against South Africa citing mental fatigue. The BCCI did not take the reason very kindly and asked Ishan Kishan to go back to playing Ranji Trophy to prove his mettle. However, Ishan ignored the request, which resulted in the snub. The wicketkeeper however took part in the DY Patil T20 Cup but that did very little to douse the flame.
Shreyas Iyer on the other hand was in the good books of BCCI but fell out due to a series of incidents. After Iyer was dropped from the Test squad, he complained of back spasm and skipped Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy match. Although he will return to play the Ranji Trophy semi-final, it came a little too late.
However, in spite of the shortcomings, that Iyer and Ishan enjoys the support of Indian cricket fans was evident by their reactions. While some pulled up Iyer’s World Cup stats to bash BCCI, others claimed Iyer was axed because he kept a straight face when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Indian dressing room after the 2023 ODI WC final. In case of Ishan Kishan, fans took digs at BCCI for axing him even when India have no proper wicketkeeper in Tests.
He is Shreyas Iyer, ICT Batsman.
He was born in Hindu family and he is captain of SRK owned team KKR.
He helped ICT to reach WC finals with 2 centuries, 3 half- centuries at 100+ SR.
When India lost the WC final, shreyas didn’t like the idea of PM Modi barging into the… pic.twitter.com/sWt3bZjo1D
— Dr Nimo Yadav Commentary (@niiravmodi) February 28, 2024
Shreyas Iyer played full World Cup, scored 530 runs at an average of 66.25, got terminated.
One cricketer got injured midway during the World Cup, hasn’t played any cricket in six months but is fit for IPL, promoted to Grade A.
— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) February 28, 2024
Iyer lost the contract after an all timer WC, but babysitter tilak got it
Dropped Gill just after getting run out by him
Picked sky who averaged below 30 over Samson and costed us home wc with poor captaincy
Wish i could go back to Virat Kohli era pic.twitter.com/lFWWfWdSxA
— ` (@musafir_tha_yr) February 28, 2024
Feel for Shreyas Iyer didn’t even get a C grade contract, he was at least playing cricket and scoring runs when the guy in A grade list chills at hospital for more than 6 months a year. pic.twitter.com/DXVXsPYBrt
— User45 (@140of113) February 28, 2024
Its too hard to be his fan
Waiting hard to see him bat
The tl filled with his trolls,all news artickles degrading him , all filled with negativity , laughs of the people when we tell them the cricketer we admire
But nothing could break my confidence on him#IshanKishan pic.twitter.com/PWJiUxr6RJ
— Deep (@Jackiemeranaam) February 27, 2024
This is very WRONG Treatment with specially Ishan Kishan.He was travelling with Team for whole 1 year & getting chances 1-2 match .Played an amazing knock against Pakistan under Pressure. He needed Break after World Cup Final too to come out of that heartbreak.This is UNFAIR… pic.twitter.com/WUOgISnSnK
— Divya Raj (@divya_50) February 28, 2024
CAREER END: BCCI has cancelled Ishan Kishan’s annual contract after having some discussion with Captain Rohit Sharma.
Never mess with the Karma and Sharma ! pic.twitter.com/Y56hdqnKV3
— 𝐇𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝕏 (@ImHydro45) February 28, 2024
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