Overview

• Speaking on Amazon MX Player’s Rise and Fall, the trans cricketer recounted that soon after publicly coming out in November 2024, a well-known player added her on social media and sent an explicit image without any prior conversation.
• Pressed by fellow contestants, she confirmed the photo was nude and said the person is widely known, but she declined to identify him.
• Clips of the exchange drew broad media coverage and heavy social-media speculation about the cricketer’s identity.
• Bangar has previously said she faced harassment within cricket after her transition, while also noting strong private support including tens of thousands of marriage proposals in her messages.
• In June 2025 she submitted an eight-week scientific assessment to the ICC and BCCI arguing her post–hormone therapy metrics align with cisgender female norms, and there has been no public institutional comment on her latest claim.