{"id":296553,"date":"2025-07-27T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296553\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:45:16","slug":"watch-didnt-play-before-wont-play-now-shikhar-dhawan-snaps-at-reporter-over-india-vs-pakistan-wcl-question-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296553\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch | &#8216;Didn&#8217;t play before, won&#8217;t play now&#8217;: Shikhar Dhawan snaps at reporter over India vs Pakistan WCL question | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122933331.jpg\" alt=\"Watch | 'Didn't play before, won't play now': Shikhar Dhawan snaps at reporter over India vs Pakistan WCL question\" title=\"Shikhar Dhawan (Video grab)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Shikhar Dhawan (Video grab) NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shikhar-dhawan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shikhar Dhawan<\/a> made headlines after a tense exchange with a reporter who questioned whether the veteran batter would play if India were to meet Pakistan in the semi-finals of the ongoing World Championship of Legends (WCL).Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Dhawan, who had earlier pulled out of India&#8217;s group-stage clash against Pakistan \u2014 alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/yuvraj-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuvraj Singh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/harbhajan-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harbhajan Singh<\/a>, Irfan Pathan, and Yusuf Pathan \u2014 was firm in his stance and visibly annoyed by the repetition of the question.<\/p>\n<p>Why India played wrong team for Manchester Test; Kuldeep Yadav missed!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re asking this question at the wrong time and place \u2014 you shouldn&#8217;t have asked it. And as I didn&#8217;t play earlier, I still won&#8217;t play now,\u201d Dhawan said sharply during the interaction. The video of his blunt response has since gone viral.Watch:The India vs Pakistan league match had been called off amid mounting public backlash, prompting several top Indian names to withdraw. The controversy drew criticism from ex-Pakistan cricketers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shahid-afridi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shahid Afridi<\/a>, who said \u201cone bad egg spoils it for everyone,\u201d and Salman Butt, who challenged India to take a consistent stand across ICC events and the 2028 Olympics, where cricket will debut.With both India and Pakistan Champions still in contention for the knockouts, the possibility of a high-voltage semi-final remains \u2014 though Dhawan has made it clear he will not participate if that happens.India Champions, the defending WCL title-holders, have had a rough start to their campaign. They suffered an 88-run loss to South Africa Champions, followed by a four-wicket defeat to Australia Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shikhar Dhawan (Video grab) NEW DELHI: Shikhar Dhawan made headlines after a tense exchange with a reporter who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,34925,109956,27834,30563,30919,79,16,15,109955,109954,77365],"class_list":{"0":"post-296553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-harbhajan-singh","10":"tag-india-champions","11":"tag-india-vs-pakistan","12":"tag-shahid-afridi","13":"tag-shikhar-dhawan","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wcl-semi-finals","18":"tag-world-championship-of-legends","19":"tag-yuvraj-singh"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114926683847576964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}