India batter Hanuma Vihari has vowed to ‘never play for Andhra again’ over facing utter humiliation by the state association over the years, the batter claimed in a social media post on Monday (Feb 26).
In that post, the right-handed batter said the Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) forced him to give up his captaincy following the team’s opening game of the season against Bengal in January this year.
Although Vihari had cited personal reasons for leaving his state’s captaincy back then, he opened up on what happened behind the scenes that led to this. On the said post, Vihari wrote that he shouted at the 17th player on the squad (while he was the captain during that game), who complained to his father, who happened to be politically affiliated. In return, his father urged the association to take action against Vihari, which they eventually did by removing him from the captaincy.
Vihari added despite his team going past Bengal’s first-inning total, the ACA asked him to step aside from the captaincy post.