Why Is Former Cricketer Venkatesh Prasad Trending On Twitter?

Former Indian cricketer Venkatesh Prasad is trending on X, popularly known as Twitter, following his outburst against the BCCI.

"It takes one corrupt, arrogant guy to take away the hard work of an organisation that is generally non-corrupt and get a stamp of corruption on the whole leadership, not just on a micro level but at a large level," read Prasad's deleted tweet.

Many assumed that he was targeting the BCCI over the ticket mismanagement and poor scheduling of the forthcoming ICC World Cup.

However, the screenshot of the post was shared by fact-checker Mohammed Zubair. This did not go well with the cricketer, popularly known as Venky.

Attacking the journalist for sharing his deleted post, Prasad said, "Haha.. Says a serial hate-monger, who has put so many lives in danger for his agenda. You disguising as a fact-checker is like Terrorists talking about peace,"

Prasad then stated, "Am aware of him putting lives at risk and posting derogatory stuff about Hindu Gods. A real shame that such deceivers still can disguise as journalists and beg for donations."

As people asked him to reveal the names of the corrupt and questioned why he deleted the tweet, he reposted the deleted tweet.

Giving clarification over the deleted tweet, he said, "Since I was also speaking about the inefficiency of the BCCI around tickets in other tweets, it led to confusion and looked out of context. Hence deleted," he said.

"This doesn't look good. Either the ticket partners are incompetent to handle the ticket and traffic or this is another eyewash in the name of releasing tickets. Hope there is a proper audit and identification of how the tickets are sold and to whom and what platform. Just cannot take the biggest stakeholders, the fans for a ride with false assurances," the cricketer had tweeted on Friday, questioning the way in which ticketing was done for ICC men's cricket match.

Talking about the problems faced by the upcoming World Cup, he wrote, "There is no debate and doubt on the fact that we have messed up the lead up to the World Cup. Unreasonable delay in schedule in the first place and if that wasn't enough changing the schedule hampering 5 matches in the process, if that wasn't enough a completely non-transparent and inefficient ticket system only encouraging black marketeers. It is a proud moment to be hosting a World Cup and it should have been a great time for the fans but these difficulties for the fans doesn't look unplanned . It's time we wake up and not make this incompetence a norm just because "Yes Men" around don't want to speak up. It is a matter of national prestige,"