{"id":22720,"date":"2021-01-15T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T10:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=22720"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:59:06","slug":"indian-star-targeted-again-by-unruly-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=22720","title":{"rendered":"Indian star targeted again by unruly fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian fast bowler Mohammed Siraj was today allegedly targeted by a group of fans at The Gabba, just days after NSW Police ejected six patrons from the SCG during the third Test.<\/p>\n<p>Fans in Brisbane were heard shouting out at Siraj, labelling the paceman a &quot;grub&quot; according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/claim-of-grub-shouts-at-siraj-from-section-of-gabba-20210115-p56uh9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald.\"><em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Siraj, along with Washington Sundar, who was called in to replace Ravichandran Ashwin, were both targets of a number of fans in The Gabba crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The guys behind me have been calling &#8211; shouting &#8211; both Washington and Siraj grubs,&quot; a spectator named Kate said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It started towards Siraj and it was a chant similar to the SCG one.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b14fb4e4-2dda-41f8-ab4c-d8675436e756\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b14fb4e4-2dda-41f8-ab4c-d8675436e756\" alt=\"Mohammed Siraj of India speaks to Umpire Paul Reiffel \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The witness told the <em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> they were seated in the same section that saw one spectator escorted from standing on his seat starting an &quot;Aussie, Aussie, Aussie&quot; chant, while a group of patrons dressed as lifeguards had their beer snake dismantled by security guards.<\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s understood none of the Indian players reacted to any of the comments made on day one.<\/p>\n<p>During the third Test at the SCG, play paused for more than 10 minutes on the stroke of tea on the fifth day when a clearly agitated <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/scg-crowd-racial-abuse-india-v-australia-ravi-ashwin-justin-langer\/7a2f51a8-5d0f-4d19-af6b-34ad14d15ec8\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Siraj spoke to captain Ajinkya Rahane and umpires Paul Wilson and Paul Reiffel about the crowd&#x27;s behaviour.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Siraj spoke to captain Ajinkya Rahane and umpires Paul Wilson and Paul Reiffel about the crowd&#x27;s behaviour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The behaviour was labelled <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/australia-v-india-scg-test-mohammed-siraj-alleged-racism\/5640479a-241a-4397-8982-9f5900beda91\" title=\"incident labelled as &quot;regrettable&quot; by Cricket Australia&#x27;s head of integrity and security Sean Carroll.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&quot;regrettable&quot; by Cricket Australia&#x27;s head of integrity and security Sean Carroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Indian fast bowler Mohammed Siraj was today allegedly targeted by a group of fans at The Gabba, just days after NSW Police ejected six patrons <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=22720\" title=\"Indian star targeted again by unruly fans\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22722,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions\/22722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}