Social media was flooded with accusations towards Pakistan skipper Babar Azam prior to now few days. Some of his photos, movies and screenshots of alleged chats with a woman surfaced on the microblogging website Twitter.
It was claimed that Babar was concerned in sexting a fellow Pakistani cricketer’s girlfriend and was honey-trapped.
Fox Cricket, one of many media companions of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), printed a story concerning the controversy on their web site and shared the identical on their official Twitter deal with.
“Babar Azam is being accused of allegedly sexting teammate’s girlfriend after videos of voice recordings went viral online.” wrote Fox Cricket.
PCB responded to the tweet publicly and lashed out on the Fox Sports community and mentioned that the Australian broadcast community ought to have averted ‘unsubstantiated personal allegation’.
“As our media partner, you might have considered ignoring such unsubstantiated personal allegations which Babar Azam has not deemed worthy of a response,” mentioned PCB.
After PCB’s rebuttal, Fox Cricket deleted the tweet and the printed article from their web site.
The parody account that made the claims and allegations on Babar additionally got here ahead and mentioned that he constructed the story in a satirical method, and it wasn’t true. He additional replied to PCB, “If you want to sue Fox News, reach me out in DMs. I am ready to become a witness in this case for my fellow lovely Pakistani people.”
Delete this tweet, “bf in team for sexting” story is fake, I did this in a satirical method.
— Dr Nimo Yadav (@niiravmodi) January 17, 2023
If you need to sue Fox News, attain me out in DMs. I’m able to turn into a witness on this case for my fellow pretty Pakistani folks ❤️
— Dr Nimo Yadav (@niiravmodi) January 17, 2023
Netizens celebrated the deletion of Fox Cricket’s article and lauded Pakistan cricket governing authority for their motion. However, Babar didn’t pay any heed to the controversy, however the followers jumped in to assist the 28-year-old and trended the hashtag #StayStronBabarAzam on Twitter.
Babar has simply ended a busy dwelling season for the Men in Green and can subsequent be in motion within the 2023 version of Pakistan Super League (PSL) representing Peshawar Zalmi.