Indian Premier League (IPL) cheerleader Gabriella Pasqualotto of Mumbai Indians had sparked a major controversy few years ago after she was sacked by the MI’s cheerleading squad for claiming that cricketers misbehaved with her at post-match parties. Shortly after her sacking, the 22-year-old Pasqualotto took to Twitter to spew venom against the IPL management.
After Pasquallato was sent back to South Africa, she tweeted from her handle @Iplgirl, “My blog was meant to be light and witty and not taken seriously or to heart… this should not have become such a scene…” She added, “My blog was not just based on the cricketers, I wrote only a few sentences about them and it seems it scared the S### out of them.”
Pasqualotto first grabbed headline when she started tweeting about her experiences as @IPLGirl. Later, she started writing an anonymous blog, on which she talked about flirtatious cricketers and IPL parties. According to reports, a heerleader informed cricketers about Pasqualotto’s actions and she was sacked and sent home.
She told South African newspaper, The Witness, “I was sent home as if I was a criminal. I was treated as if I had taken drugs or done something awful, and I was never offered an opportunity to give my side of the story. It’s a joke. There were cameras everywhere at these after-parties, watching what they got up to. The guys treated us like a piece of meat. We couldn’t go anywhere without the crowds mobbing us. But nothing I wrote was directed at any one person. I think the cricketer [an Aussie] who complained had a guilty conscience.”
