Angkrish Raghuvanshi on Saina Nehwal: Indian Premier 2024 (IPL 2024) was very special for many young players. Many young players got a chance to debut in the league. One of these players was Kolkata Knight Riders' young batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi. The young talented batsman impressed everyone with his batting. However, even after so much time of IPL, Angkrish remains in the news these days. The reason for him being in the news is not his batting but a comment on India's star badminton player Saina Nehwal.

Why Angkrish Raghuvanshi came into the limelight

India's Olympic medal winner star badminton player Saina Nehwal recently went to a podcast. The video of which went viral on social media platform X. In this video, Saina talked about cricket and other sports. She said that if you look at other sports, they are physically very difficult, whereas cricket only requires skill.

Reacting to this video of Saina, Angkrish Raghuvanshi had said from his official x account, 'Let's see how she survives when Jasprit Bumrah hits a bumper on her head at a speed of 150.' Fans did not like this reaction of Angkrish at all and they started trolling Raghuvanshi continuously. Angkrish Raghuvanshi also realized his mistake after some time and deleted his reaction on Saina Nehwal's video.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi has apologized to everyone on social media by deleting the response. He wrote about the whole matter from his account on x, 'I want to apologize to everyone. I made my comment as a joke. When I saw it again, I felt that it was a really immature joke. I realize my mistake and I want to sincerely apologize.' Angkrish realized his mistake just a few hours after being trolled by the fans. Let us tell you that Angkrish played 10 matches for KKR in IPL 2024 in which he scored 163 runs with the help of 1 half-century.