Aggression and Anger is the common issue with Indian cricketers we’ve seen over the past many years. Sreesanth was known to be very aggressive. Harbhajan Singh got angry once and slapped Sreesanth. Virat Kohli is known to be super aggressive and has notably used a lot of cuss words for opposite team players during the live match. However, none of them was ever noticed indulged in a fight with someone at a public place especially a senior citizen.
Indian middle order batsman Ambati Rayudu has crossed all the barriers of aggression. He was seen and recorded on camera while manhandling a senior citizen at a public place.
The incident happened when Ambati was on his way to the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday. Reportedly, Rayudu was driving rashly and when the senior citizen pointed it out, he lost his cool and started abusing him. It didn’t end there as Rayudu got down from his car and attacked the senior citizen physically.
The whole matter was recorded in phone camera by someone and posted on social media.
Ambati Rayudu fight and abusive language with pedestrian.Not a sportsmanship behavior of Cricketer .Should be ashamed of himself! pic.twitter.com/tbQ2x2zyfN
— Jagan Reddy (@JaganReddyBRS) August 31, 2017
The video got Rayudu heavy criticism.
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https://twitter.com/KappiDecoction/status/903214093502255105
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Rayudu first shouted at senior citizen as nee amma ( teri maaki ) then that senior citizen got mad..shame on him #ambatirayudu
— Jagan Reddy (@JaganReddyBRS) September 1, 2017
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https://twitter.com/hvgoenka/status/903299713624977408
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https://twitter.com/TheJyotiraditya/status/903514916807516160
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Shame on u….@RayuduAmbati
— Pankaj Sharma (@bunty17sharma) September 1, 2017
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@RayuduAmbati Shame on u Bro. Respect&responsiblity Learn it from legends like Sachin, dravid & msd.. disgusting behaviour. #ambatirayudu
— arasui4u@gmail com (@arasui4u) September 1, 2017
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@RayuduAmbati A national level player manhandling a senior citizen …shame on u Ambati Rayudu..without IPL u be nothing
— Manoj Maheshwari (@mano2881) September 1, 2017
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@RayuduAmbati Unless u learn to respect your elders, u will reach nowhere in life. Don't displace your cricketing frustrations on others.
— Ravi Sreedhar (@r_kaimal2001) September 1, 2017
However, there were a few people who said that it was not a fault of Rayudu because senior citizen provoked him. Check out their tweets-
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#ambatirayudu any one who uses words 'mother#@$%&#' should be ready for that. With @RayuduAmbati here. Where was his seniority then?
— Sh'yam 🇮🇳🇦🇺 (@spu08) September 1, 2017
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Ambati rayudu looks the victim here https://t.co/HtzBZiKynE
— Irfan Ahmed (@irfanahmed_27) September 1, 2017
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@RayuduAmbati Bro u did the right thing! Brainless people walking on roads like their own property, Not even have Road sense. (y)
— #Amancha (@amansrinu) September 1, 2017
Ambati was also involved in an on field argument with Harbhajan Singh while playing for Mumbai Indians against Rising Pune Supergiant in the Indian Premier League last year.
What do you think about it?