Pakistani presenter Zainab Abbas, who was a part of the ICC digital workforce protecting the Cricket World Cup 2023, broke her silence for the primary time since leaving India after going through backlash on social media over her alleged anti-India posts up to now. “I’ve at all times felt extraordinarily lucky and grateful for the alternatives to journey and current the game I like – this one would have been further particular,” Zainab stated in a press release on X, previously referred to as Twitter. Abbas additionally made it clear that neither was she deported nor was she requested to go away from India.

“I used to be neither requested to go away nor was I deported,” she additional added within the assertion.

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— zainab abbas (@ZAbbasOfficial) October 12, 2023

Zainab left India from Hyderabad the place she was deputed to cowl Pakistan’s three Cricket World Cup video games within the metropolis. The 35-year-old was current on the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium in Hyderabad for Pakistan’s World Cup opener towards the Netherlands on October 6.

Posts from her unverified X account, previously Twitter, had gone viral after she introduced that she can be protecting the ICC mega occasion in India.

As hypothesis on social media intensified over her departure from India in the course of the event, the Worldwide Cricket Council clarified that Zainab was not deported from the host nation.

“Zainab has not been deported, she has left for private causes,” an ICC spokesperson advised PTI. The presenter, who arrived in Hyderabad final week, was alleged to journey to cities the place Pakistan are scheduled to play, together with Bengaluru, Chennai and Ahmedabad.

Former Pakistan gamers Rameez Raja and Waqar Younis are in India as a part of the commentary panel for the ODI showpiece, which started on October 5 and can finish on November 19.

(With PTI inputs)