Young batter Kolkata Knight Riders batter Angkrish Raghuvanshi recently came under scrutiny for mocking Indian badminton star Saina Nehwal in a now-deleted social media post. After Nehwal claimed that sports like badminton, tennis, basketball are physically tougher than cricket, Raghuvanshi took a jibe at her on social media platform X.
In a now deleted post Raghuvanshi said that, “Let’s see how she goes when Bumrah bowls 150k’s bumper at her head.”
Recently, Nehwal made an appearance on Shubhankar Mishra’s podcast where she indirectly gave a response to Raghuvanshi’s criticism of her and claimed that Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah won’t be able to take her smash.
“How will you become Virat at that level? How will you become Rohit Sharma? So many players have to become like them. They can’t. Only a few of them are like that. But I just feel that it’s more of a skill-based sport. And bowlers, I agree. I won’t die there. Why would I face Jasprit Bumrah anyways? If I had been playing for 8 years maybe I would have answered Jasprit Bumrah,” Nehwal said.
“If Jasprit Bumrah plays badminton with me maybe he won’t be able to take my smash. We should not fight with ourselves in our own country for these things. That’s what I want to say. Every sport is best in its place. But I want to say give value to other sports as well. Otherwise, where will we get sporting culture from? And cricket, Bollywood will always be our focus,” she added.
