MS Dhoni’s daughter, Ziva, has been receiving threats since CSK lost to KKR in Wednesday’s IPL match | Image Credit: PTI
Ziva Dhoni, the five-year-old daughter of former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, may have been receiving rape and death threats following CSK’s poor performance in Wednesday’s IPL match.
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Cricket is one of the most popular games in India. But it is also the biggest catalyst for causing toxic misogyny to emerge among men. And the latest example of such toxicity followed the Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders match on Wednesday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav were on the receiving end of trolls on social media after CSK failed to pursue the 168 goal set by KKR at Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
But while violent trolling and abuse of players (and even their wives and girlfriends) is a common reaction from so-called “fans” whenever their favorite team loses a game, the hatred now seems to spread to children and minors. .
READ: Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav brutally troll with memes as CSK drowns against KKR in exciting IPL contest
In a disturbing incident, while hundreds of people were tracking Dhoni, some tweets and Facebook posts also surfaced threatening Dhoni’s five-year-old daughter. And not just any threats, they were threats of rape and physical violence.
I just saw that Ziva, Dhoni’s 6-year-old daughter, is being raped and threatened with death because she did not play well in # IPL2020Do people realize what the fuck we’ve become? Can you imagine where we are heading as a country? A morally dead and decadent nation! pic.twitter.com/tYF9CsMleY
– Aryan Srivastava (@aryansrivastav_) October 8, 2020
Did people abuse Ziva Dhoni for yesterday’s loss? What’s up with you mfs?
– Shash🏌️ (@_Shakti_maan) October 8, 2020
6-year-old Ziva is getting rape threats because Dhoni didn’t play well yesterday This is India, I’m disappointed like an Indian 😕😞 Trolled Kedar in the lightest way I bulged, but didn’t abuse him Who are these bastards that are they abstaining? Kedar and Dhoni 😡#CSKvsKKR #SRHvsKXIP pic.twitter.com/4e24OUrNGH
– vivacious soul (@ VarunRDCR7) October 8, 2020
Trigger warning // Rape So Ziva Dhoni, a little girl, is receiving threats of rape because her father, MS Dhoni, did not perform well in IPL or something like that ????? I hate this country and its men. I hate it. Mard ki jaat came out mdrchd hai.
– Palak (@Suh_What) October 9, 2020
The threats allegedly appeared on the Instagram accounts of Dhoni and his wife Sakshi after the loss on Wednesday.
After Dhoni fell to Chakravarthy 11 (12) in the 17th, CSK still needed 39 of 21. Kedar Jadhav, on the other hand, struggled to center the ball, scoring an undefeated 7 of 12 but at a turtle pace.
The equation came down to CSK needing 26 in its last 6 installments. Ravindra Jadeja made a cameo in the final of Andre Russel’s bowling match, but it was too late for CSK as KKR emerged as the winner by just 10 runs.
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This is not the first time, of course, that a cricketer’s family has had to face abuse online due to poor performance on the field. More recently, actress Anuskha Sharma, who is married to current Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, was widely criticized on social media for her husband’s poor performance. Not just trolls, even commentator Sunil Gavaskar criticized Sharma, claiming that Kohli’s poor performance was the result of a lack of practice, as the block had meant that he could only practice with Sharma.
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