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Cricket Governing Body strongly reacts to Virat Kohli’s infringement of privacy incident

The cricket governing body has given its word that an incident that involved infringement of privacy will not happen again and that this will be the first and last time such an event takes place. This was in relation to a violation of privacy incident involving former India captain Virat Kohli.

Kohli shared a video on his Instagram handle along with a statement that showed that he was not happy with those who were involved in the incident and minced no words for those who took the video. The Indian team were put up in Perth where they played their group 2 fixture against South Africa on Sunday.

We are incredibly disappointed by this incident: Cricket Governing Body

A spokesperson from the Cricketing governing body said that cricket’s international governing body is “incredibly disappointed” by the incident. “The Cricket Governing Body is incredibly disappointed by the gross invasion of privacy suffered by a member of the Indian traveling party at the Crown Perth, during their team’s pre-event preparation ahead of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022,” said the spokesperson. “We continue to work with event hotels and security providers to ensure that this remains an isolated incident and player privacy is fully respected at all times.”

According to reports, the Indian team did not take up the issue with the cricket Governing Body or Cricket Australia. They directly communicated the issue to the hotel staff who said that it has dismissed those who orchestrated the incident.
“We unreservedly apologise to the guest involved and will continue to take the necessary steps to ensure this remains an isolated incident,” the hotel management said in a statement. “Crown has taken immediate steps to rectify the issue. The individuals involved have been stood down and removed from the Crown account, and the original video was swiftly removed from the social media platform.

“Crown is conducting an investigation with the third-party contractor and will take any further steps necessary to ensure an incident of this nature does not happen again. We are also cooperating with the Indian Cricket team and the International Cricket Council to convey our apologies and will continue to work with them as we progress the investigation.”