Shama Mohamed, spokesperson of the Congress party, stoked row after calling Sharma “fat for a sportsman” and branding his captaincy the “most unimpressive” in the country.

While Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed remained defiant over her criticism of Team India skipper Rohit Sharma’s fitness, the party high-command raced to fire-fight the situation and asked her to take her post down. Shortly after, she deleted her online post calling Mr Sharma a “fat sportsperson” and all other successive posts in which she had defended herself. However, she hasn’t apologised yet.

Ms Mohamed’s post critical of Mr Sharma dropped in the middle of yesterday’s India vs New Zealand match. “Rohit Sharma is fat for a sportsman! Need to lose weight! And of course the most unimpressive Captain India has ever had,” it read.

Next morning, she clarified her remark was “generic” in nature and that she “failed to understand how in a democracy, we don’t have the right to speak”.

This, however, didn’t help and left the Congress red-faced and with a task in hand to set things right. The party ordered her to delete her posts. She agreed.

Known as the ‘man with the golden arm’, James Harrison’s blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives. 

​Known as the ‘man with the golden arm’, James Harrison’s blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.