Gavaskar & other 1983 World Cup-winning stars support protesting wrestlers
Updated On: 02 June, 2023 05:39 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Urging the aggrieved wrestlers to not take any hasty decision, members of the 1983 World Cup winning cricket team on Friday came out in support of Vinesh Phogat and Co.
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1983 World Cup-winning team (L), Protesting wrestlers clash with the police (R), Pic: AFP
Urging the aggrieved wrestlers to not take any hasty decision, members of the 1983 World Cup winning cricket team on Friday came out in support of Vinesh Phogat and Co., while hoping that players` issues will be `heard and resolved`. In a joint statement, the 1983 triumphant team said it was distressed and disturbed after seeing the visuals of wrestlers being manhandled but also hoped that law of the land will prevail.
Phogat, along with Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, have been demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Birj Bhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual exploitation of women wrestlers. They took their protest to Haridwar on May 30 but did not carry out the threat of immersing their medals into holy river Ganga.
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