{"id":146293,"date":"2025-09-16T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:45:09","slug":"ricky-ponting-cops-social-media-abuse-for-comments-he-didnt-make-in-regards-to-poor-sportsmanship-between-india-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146293\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Ponting cops social media abuse for comments he didn’t make in regards to poor sportsmanship between India and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australian cricket<\/a> captain Ricky Ponting<\/a> has copped a flurry of abuse on social media, for comments he didn’t actually make. <\/p>\n

It comes in the wake of India’s decision not to shake hands with their Pakistani opponents<\/a> after an Asian Cup T20 game.<\/p>\n

It was the first time the two nations have played each other since the conflict between the neighbouring countries in May.<\/p>\n

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India<\/a> captain Suryakumar Yadav declined to shake hands with Pakistan<\/a> skipper Salman Ali Agha at the coin toss and the Indian team refused to shake hands with their opponents after the game.<\/p>\n

\"BENGALURU,<\/p>\n

Ricky Ponting Punjab Kings (PBKS) head coach.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

As a result, Salman Ali Agha refused to attend the most match presentation in the wake of India’s victory.<\/p>\n

Naturally the poor sportsmanship has been criticised, but fake quotes attributed to Ponting went viral on social media.<\/p>\n

“This match will be remembered forever, India the big loser”, the fake quote, purportedly said on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, read.<\/p>\n

“Pakistan’s gesture to shake hands despite defeat has immortalised them as true champions of the gentleman’s game, while India remains the perpetual sore loser.”<\/p>\n

Those quotes were then published by various news sites, particularly in India. <\/p>\n

The Age’s Daniel Brettig, however, has reported<\/a> that Ponting never made the comments. The English broadcaster isn’t even covering the tournament. The comments were simply fabricated online and spread quickly.<\/p>\n

Australian cricket reporter for News Corp Daniel Cherny slammed the comments, calling social media a “cesspit of lies”, while also reporting that Ponting never said the quotes. <\/p>\n

The SMH has contacted Ponting’s management for comment.<\/p>\n

\"Ricky<\/p>\n

Former Australian cricket player Ricky Ponting and his wife Rianna.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Someone who did criticise India’s lack of sportsmanship was Pakistan coach Mike Hesson.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, we were ready to shake hands at the end of the game,” Hesson said in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

“We were disappointed that our opposition didn’t do that.<\/p>\n

“We sort of went over there to shake hands and they were already going to the changing room. That was a disappointing way for the match to play [out]. In a match that we were disappointed in the way we played, but certainly we were willing to go and shake hands.”<\/p>\n

Suryakumar said after the game that some situations were above sportsmanship, referring to the animosity between the two nations.<\/p>\n

“Our government and BCCI, we were aligned. Together, we came here, we took a call and I feel we came here just to play the game. And we gave the proper reply,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I feel a few things in life are ahead of sportsman spirit.”<\/p>\n

The match took place in Dubai, with Pakistan setting 127. India chased down the total with four overs to spare. <\/p>\n

Ponting is the coach of the Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League, and has coached in the T20 tournament since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has copped a flurry of abuse on social media, for comments he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-146293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}