{"id":602754,"date":"2026-05-25T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:32:09","slug":"travis-head-and-his-wife-suffer-online-abuse-after-cricketers-spat-with-indias-kohli-during-ipl-match-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602754\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Head and his wife suffer online abuse after cricketer&#8217;s spat with India&#8217;s Kohli during IPL match &#8211; Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Head and his wife Jessica have been subjected to a barrage of online abuse after the Australian cricketer was <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/cricket\/kohli-refuses-handshake-with-head-after-heated-verbal-spat-during-ipl-clash-2026-05-23\/\">embroiled<\/a> in a spat with India great Virat Kohli during an Indian Premier League (IPL) match.<\/p>\n<p>The players clashed during the T20 match between Head\u2019s Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kohli\u2019s Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Heated words were exchanged between the two before Kohli was dismissed for 15 and his team slumped to a 55-run defeat.<\/p>\n<p>As the two sets of players lined up for the post-game handshakes, Kohli ignored Head\u2019s outstretched arm but shook hands with the other players.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Instagram accounts for Head and Jessica have since been flooded with abusive comments, apparently from fans of the former India captain.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica told The Advertiser newspaper that her friends and family had also received hateful private messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke up to my socials blasting \u2026 we are fine but they are attacking my friends and family,\u201d she said Monday, according to the reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassion will always be part of sport, but so is remembering there are real people and families behind the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, this encourages more kindness and support for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said it felt like \u201ca repeat of the abuse that happened after the World Cup\u201d, referring to the 2023 50-over tournament when Australia beat hosts India in the final in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Head and his wife Jessica have been subjected to a barrage of online abuse after the Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}