Updated October 15th, 2019 at 16:18 IST

Shane Watson's Instagram account hacked, cricketer posts apology

Former Australian cricketer Shane Watson issued an apology to his fans after objectionable content was posted through his social media handle on Tuesday

Reported by: Koushik Narayanan
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Former Australian cricketer Shane Watson issued an apology to his fans after objectionable content was posted through his social media handle on Tuesday. Shane Watson took to Twitter to apologize to his fans and said that his Instagram account had been hacked. This is the second time in two weeks that Shane Watson has reported that his social media handles were hacked and objectionable content was posted via his handles. Shane Watson apologized to his fans for the illicit content posted via his handle and expressed his anger at Instagram for taking too long to resolve the issue unlike Twitter, which he claimed had quickly responded to suspicious activity on his handle on the previous Friday. Many fans took to their social media handles to report Shane Watson's account and the objectionable content posted via his handles. 

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Shane Watson apologizes

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Shane Watson on Australia, Smith & Warner

Shane Watson said Australia was doing well and had depth and felt the team was stronger following the return of Steve Smith and David Warner from ball-tampering bans."The Australian team has had its issues in the last year or so. Now that Steve Smith and David Warner have come back and settled well, it has got a very strong team. There is a really good No.3 in Marnus Labuschagne, who did a great job during the Ashes. The fast bowlers are very good and there is depth in the department and Nathan Lyon are performing too. We have got strong depth," he added.About his batting with a bloodied knee during the IPL 2019 final against Mumbai Indians which CSK lost, the veteran all-rounder said he wasn't really aware of it. "I wasn't really aware of it. You don't worry about something which you don't know. All I thought about was what the score was and how many runs we needed to get," he added.

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Published October 15th, 2019 at 16:03 IST