Sourav Ganguly is one of the legends of Indian cricket. While he was in his prime, he was called ‘god of off-side’ for his ability to play off-side shots perfectly. It was Sourav Ganguly under whose leadership India achieved that famous win against Australia after being asked to follow on. Twitter Slams BCCI President Sourav Ganguly for sexism statement.
It seems like the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly is in the news be it related to cricket or not. Now the former Indian cricketer has again grabbed the headlines and this time received a lot of backlash because of what he said.
While he was in the news when the whole Virat Kohli being axed as ODI skipper and Rohit Sharma replacing him saga took place, however, now his statement during an event in Gurgaon has been gaining him some flak. The former India skipper had made several comments regarding the current turmoil in Indian cricket.
However, the answer he gave regarding how he deals with stress is what grabbed the attention of netizens. “There is no stress in life. Only wife and girlfriend give stress,” Sourav Ganguly had jokingly said during the event. But soon after, people started calling him out and termed him sexism for putting out such a ‘joke.’
People starts comment on twitter. Wrote That comment by Sourav Ganguly is in such bad taste. Especially given how the pandemic and bubbles have affected players mental health. To say something as dismissive and blaming stress on their partners when we’ve had trolls blame players failures on wives regularly is plain stupid.
In Another tweet Less than 10 years ago men were laughing at rape jokes. And when we did not we were called childish. The absolute lack of understanding of how sexist this shit is and if the reverse were done on you all the time – we’ll see how funny you find it 🙂 That’s all.
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