Australia v India Test series 2024: How Isa Guhas on-air gaffe exposed tensions off the pitch [Video]

When Isa Guha made what she called a “genuine slip-up” by referring to India’s spearhead Jasprit Bumrah as their “most valuable primate” on the second morning of the Gabba Test, she inadvertently touched multiple fault lines in cricket and culture.

Guha created headlines for using a word that ran contrary to her track record of pushing for inclusion in cricket.

While fellow commentators in the Fox Cricket box were briefly surprised before carrying on, the reverberations started online and on social media.

The clip was first picked up by the sports website The Roar, which was then distributed widely across the day. Seven, Fox Cricket’s cricket broadcast rights partner and rival, ran the gaffe with high prominence on the nightly news, and overnight numerous outlets in India and the UK picked it up.

Not least of these was the Telegraphin London, which ran the story …