Ashok Dinda and Pragyan Ojha involved in an ugly spat before Ranji Trophy game
Ahead of Bengal’s Ranji Trophy game against Tamil Nadu at Rajkot, former India internationals Pragyan Ojha and Ashok Dinda got into an ugly spat during the practice session by holding each other’s collars. The spat happened after Dinda provoked Ojha by calling him an outsider in the team.
Ashok Dinda who has earlier been involved in other controversies with his teammates and
Ojha, who has been born and brought up in Bhubaneswar, initially played cricket in Hyderabad before transferring to Bengal to play in the Ranji Trophy in 2015. CAB president Sourav Ganguly invited Ojha to play for Bengal, but the move was not taken well by many of the Bengal players.
However, this is not an isolated incident as Dinda engaged himself in an altercation with Ojha during the Bengal-Odisha Ranji Trophy clash last year as well. The game is remembered for Odisha being all-out for 37 runs in the second innings on a pure mine-field where Dinda claimed seven wickets in the second innings.
Dinda to has been engulfed in controversies over the year, the biggest one being an incident involving former Bengal pacer Shib Shankar Paul and
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