Wriddhiman Saha vs Boria Majumdar: Complete timeline of events

Wriddhiman Saha, days after alleging that he was intimidated by a journalist for not giving an interview, on Saturday said that he has revealed all details to a BCCI committee probing the matter. The journalist, Boria Majumdar, identified himself as the accused. 

“I have told the committee everything I know. I have shared all the details with them. I can’t tell you much right now. BCCI has asked me not to talk about the meeting outside as they will answer all your queries,” Saha told reporters after appearing before the committee.

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The Indian wicket-keeper had refrained from naming the journalist when he first made the allegations. However, in a nine-minute video Majumdar claimed that Saha has “doctored” the WhatsApp screenshots of the chats he had with him.

Majumdar also said that he was filing a defamation suit against the discarded India glovesman.

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Here is a complete timeline of events: 

– Wriddhiman Saha, left out or the ongoing Sri Lanka series, reveals some classified dressing room conversations with head coach Rahul Dravid. 

He said that he was told by Dravid in South Africa that he was no longer in the scheme of things.

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– The wicketkeeper-batter also revealed how Chetan Sharma, the chairman of the national selection committee, told him that they were not considering him anymore. Saha has recently been demoted to Group C of the BCCI central contracts list.

– February 19: Wriddhiman Saha posts a screenshot on Twitter, saying a ‘respected journalist’ threatened him. 

– India’s head coach Rahul Dravid says he is not at all “hurt” by Saha’s comments. 

– Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) says it would conduct a thorough investigation into Saha’s allegations, asking the 37-year-old to reveal the name of the journalist.

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 – Saha says he will not reveal the identity of the journalist. “I haven’t received any communication from the BCCI yet. If they ask me to reveal the name (of the journalist), I would tell them it was never my intention to harm somebody’s career, to pull a person down.”

– BCCI forms a three-member committee to probe the alleged threat by a senior journalist. 

– Saha speaks to the BCCI committee and Boria Majumdar identifies himself.