{"id":15941,"date":"2023-10-20T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/cummins-hits-back-at-indian-journalist-for-misquoting-rizwans-gaza-post\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:37:07","slug":"cummins-hits-back-at-indian-journalist-for-misquoting-rizwans-gaza-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/cummins-hits-back-at-indian-journalist-for-misquoting-rizwans-gaza-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Cummins hits back at Indian journalist for misquoting Rizwan&#8217;s Gaza post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Australian captain Pat Cummins responded to a misleading question from an Indian journalist regarding a post on social media platform \u2018X\u2019, attributed to Pakistan&#8217;s wicketkeeper-batter, Mohammad Rizwan.<\/p>\n<p>During the pre-match presser ahead of Pakistan and Australia World Cup match, the journalist inquired about the post Rizwan made, in which he dedicated Pakistan&#8217;s victory over Sri Lanka to the oppressed Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was for our brothers and sisters in Gaza.&#8221; Rizwan wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>However, the journalist quoted the post as &#8216;controversial&#8217; and wrongly accused Rizwan of dedicating the win to Hamas, a militant organization. He further inquired whether such comments were necessary on the cricket field, deeming it a form of politicization.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the question, Cummins offered a measured response to the journalist&#8217;s query.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I only got half of that. But yeah I love seeing sports people, seeing their personalities brought out as well. So yeah, no hugely strong thoughts either way,&#8221; Cummins said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cummins was asked for his view on Pakistan players openly supporting Palestine<\/p>\n<p>Cummins \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QhTdSiHqlI\">pic.twitter.com\/QhTdSiHqlI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thakur (@hassam_sajjad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hassam_sajjad\/status\/1714947886889218128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since then, numerous Pakistan cricketers have come out in support of Palestinians and expressed their solidarity by posting Palestine flags on their X accounts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sd-bottom-social ss-icon\">\n<p class=\"ss-share-now\"> Share Now <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/cricketpakistan.com.pk\/en\/news\/detail\/cummins-hits-back-at-indian-journalist-for-misquoting-rizwans-gaza-pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<article><span><i class=\"fab fa-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/span><\/article>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/cricketpakistan.com.pk\/en\/news\/detail\/cummins-hits-back-at-indian-journalist-for-misquoting-rizwans-gaza-pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"d-flex align-items-center justify-content-between\">\n<span class=\"w-100\"><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#\"><\/p>\n<article><span><i class=\"fab fa-instagram\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/span><\/article>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=https:\/\/cricketpakistan.com.pk\/en\/news\/detail\/cummins-hits-back-at-indian-journalist-for-misquoting-rizwans-gaza-pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<article><span><i class=\"fab fa-whatsapp\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/span><\/article>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n        if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n        js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.12&appId=340509153097398&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian captain Pat Cummins responded to a misleading question from an Indian journalist regarding a post on social media platform \u2018X\u2019, attributed to Pakistan&#8217;s wicketkeeper-batter, Mohammad Rizwan. During the pre-match presser ahead of Pakistan and Australia World Cup match, the journalist inquired about the post Rizwan made, in which he dedicated Pakistan&#8217;s victory over Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c.cricketpakistan.com.pk\/images\/posts\/cover_1697716744FotoJet---2023-10-19T164927.731.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}