IPL 2018: Preity Zinta dismisses news about her rift with Virender Sehwag

The Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) slumped to their fourth defeat in this season’s Indian Premier League (IPL) against the Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Indore. They lost by 15 runs despite KL Rahul’s magnificent knock of 95 runs. During the run-chase of 158 set by the Royals, Kings made the experiment of promoting Ravichandran Ashwin to number three in the lineup.

However, the tactic failed as he was dismissed for a duck by Krishnappa Gowtham. Recently, a news broke out on Mumbai Mirror that Preity Zinta, the co-owner of Punjab, and Virender Sehwag have been involved in a heated altercation surrounding Viru’s tactics to send Ashwin ahead of specialist batsmen like Karun Nair and Manoj Tiwary. Zinta was reported to have hurled allegations at the former Indian batsman.

However, recently, Zinta opened up and mentioned the news as a fake one. She has cleared the air surrounding the rumour and mentioned it to be baseless. The Bollywood Diva took to Twitter and clarified the same.

Here is Preity’s tweet

Mumbai Mirror gets it wrong again because we didn’t do Media net & pay them to write articles cuz that’s the only time they get it right. A conversation between Viru & me has been blown out of proportion & suddenly I’m a Villian ! Wow ! #fakenews https://t.co/qGOYhCiVtV

— Preity zinta (@realpreityzinta) May 11, 2018

Punjab are currently placed in the third spot of the league table with six victories in ten games and are on the brink of qualifying for the playoffs. Nevertheless, they will be looking to shed the disappointment of their previous defeat and come back stronger against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at their newly adopted home venue at the Holkar Stadium in Indore.

In the last match, their bowling did a fairly impressive task by restricting the Rajasthan batsman after Jos Buttler took the bowlers to the cleaners. Nevertheless, they lost wickets in quick succession and weren’t able to inject any sort of momentum into the run-chase. Another defeat and they might find themselves in all sorts of trouble as far as progressing in the tournament is concerned.   

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