Mitchell Johnson blasts ICC for releasing "false quotes" on his name

Mitchell Johnson has been on a Twitter banter with the Indian side, especially with the fans in recent times. After taking a dig at the team on various occasions and getting trolled by many fans, Johnson was quoted praising the Indian fast bowling unit, Jasprit Bumrah and Ishant Sharma in specific.

“The bowler who impressed me most is Jasprit Bumrah. He has a unique action, but is very consistent with his line and length. He hardly bowls a loose delivery, which means he is hard to score off and any batsman will think twice before taking him on. The pressure he creates at one end often leads to wickets tumbling at the other,” Johnson was quoted as saying by icc-cricket.com.

But as it turns out, he never had said these lines to anyone. The former Aussie quick took to Twitter to blast the ICC Cricket’s official Twitter handle for sharing an interview which he apparently had never given. After watching the tweet, ICC had deleted the interview from its site.

“Where has this come from? I don’t recall this. Who wrote this? I do agree with parts of it but I never sat down with anyone from memory,” said Johnson via his official Twitter handle.

Where has this come from? I don’t recall this. Who wrote this? I do agree with parts of it but I never sat down with anyone from memory https://t.co/mlqSWdFuFS

— Mitchell Johnson (@MitchJohnson398) December 23, 2018

A blunder which raises a question on content authenticity

There were a lot of other interesting things mentioned in the apparent interview given by Mitchell Johnson, which eventually got deleted by ICC. But this scandal does nothing but raise some question marks over content authenticity. ICC came out to declare that the article was unpublished and apologized to the fast bowler. They also requested him to get in touch personally to clarify all the lingering doubts.

“Good evening Mitch. Given your Twitter comments, we are going to unpublish the article that features quotes that have been attributed to you. Please get in touch via DM if you’d like to issue a clarification,” read a Tweet from ICC.

Good evening Mitch. Given your Twitter comments, we are going to unpublish the article that features quotes that have been attributed to you. Please get in touch via DM if you'd like to issue a clarification https://t.co/FPF6hyjNFn

— ICC (@ICC) December 23, 2018

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