Bollywood actress and Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli’s wife, Anushka Sharma is making headlines after she posted a long tweet on Thursday, reacting to claims by India cricket legend Farokh Engineer that all that the BCCI Selectors did during the World Cup in England earlier this year was fetch “cups of tea” for her.
Now, Farokh Engineer has tried to clear the air over his ‘cups of tea’ comment which drew serious flak from Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma and India’s chief of selectors MSK Prasad. On Thursday, in an interview with a media portal, Engineer tried to defend himself by saying that he made the comments ‘in a jest’ and that Anushka is a ‘lovely girl’.
“I just said it in a jest and it’s being made a mountain out of a molehill. Poor Anushka has been dragged into it, she is a lovely girl. Virat Kohli is a brilliant captain and coach Ravi Shastri is extremely good. The entire matter is being blown up unnecessarily,” Engineer clarified.
For the uninitiated, the 81-year-old Engineer also said that Kohli had a “major impact” on the selection process and even went on to call the MSK Prasad-led selection panel a “Mickey Mouse selection committee”. Engineer, who played 46 Tests for India, even questioned the qualification of the selectors for the job.
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“We have got a Mickey Mouse selection committee. Virat Kohli has a major impact (in the process) which is very good. But how are the selectors qualified? Between them, have they played about 10-12 Test matches,” Engineer was quoted as saying by The Times Of India.
“I didn’t even know one of the selectors during the World Cup and I asked him who the hell he was because he was wearing the India blazer and he said he was one of the selectors. All they were doing was getting Anushka Sharma (Kohli’s wife) cups of tea,” Engineer added.
Anushka called Engineer’s comments ‘ill-intended lies’ and shared a scathing post on Twitter.
Check out her post:
— Anushka Sharma (@AnushkaSharma) October 31, 2019
