{"id":112074,"date":"2023-01-18T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T08:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=112074"},"modified":"2023-01-18T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T08:58:19","slug":"australian-news-outlet-removes-report-after-pcbs-criticism-over-allegations-against-babar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=112074","title":{"rendered":"Australian news outlet removes report after PCB&#8217;s criticism over allegations against Babar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Australian news outlet Fox Cricket has removed the report and tweet containing &#8220;unsubstantiated personal allegations&#8221; against skipper Babar Azam following Pakistan Cricket Board&#8217;s (PCB) criticism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The national cricket governing body slammed the publication for posting a tweet alleging Babar &#8220;sexted a teammate&#8217;s girlfriend&#8221;, saying Fox News being PCB&#8217;s partner should have refrained from highlighting the allegations.<br \/>\n&#8220;As our media partner, you might have considered ignoring such unsubstantiated personal allegations which Babar Azam has not deemed worthy of a response,&#8221; the board tweeted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images norender-embeds ui-sortable\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2023-01-18\/1031836_804788_PCB_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Australian news outlet removes report after PCBs criticism over allegations against Babar\" width=\"561\" height=\"480\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The international news outlet deleted the report after PCB&#8217;s criticism of allegations against Babar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following PCB&#8217;s reaction, the Australian publication removed its tweet first while it also took down the report later that read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Babar Azam sexting with the girlfriend of another Pakistan cricketer and promising her that her bf [boyfriend] won&#8217;t be out of the team if she keeps sexting with him is just&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meanwhile, the Pakistan skipper has remained tight-lipped on the accusations.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">The report<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Fox Cricket&#8217;s<\/i>\u00a0report stated &#8220;the account, which is a parody page, then removed the original tweet advertisement and explicitly apologised to Babar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It should be mentioned here that a woman made severe accusations against the batter in November 2020 as well and requested the filing of a prosecution against him on suspicions of fraud and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following that, a Lahore session court instructed the police to file a complaint against Babar. The Lahore High Court did, however, suspend the order of the session court in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian news outlet Fox Cricket has removed the report and tweet containing &#8220;unsubstantiated personal allegations&#8221; against skipper Babar Azam following Pakistan Cricket Board&#8217;s (PCB) criticism. The national cricket governing body slammed the publication for posting a tweet alleging Babar &#8220;sexted a teammate&#8217;s girlfriend&#8221;, saying Fox News being PCB&#8217;s partner should have refrained from highlighting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112076,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112074\/revisions\/112076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}