The World XI under the leadership of Faf Du Plessis is currently touring Pakistan to play a three match T20 series in the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. This tournament brought back international cricket to Pakistan after a gap of eight years. The cricket fans were elated and poured in huge numbers to see their heroes play against the best in the business.
Before the start of the tournament, an Australian journalist made a witty post on the social media site Twitter to take a dig at the Indian team for not participating in this historic event.
https://twitter.com/DennisCricket_/status/907587800362475520
Dennis Freedman is a well-known Australian journalist who is known for his good sense of humor over the past years. He has a follower count of more than 65,000 on the Twitter account and often posts funny stuff to make cricket less stiff.
https://twitter.com/DennisCricket_/status/907557096538882049
On Tuesday, he tweeted a picture of Virat Kohli along with other players cleaning the stands of the Eden Gardens to extend their support for the “Swachh Bharat campaign” introduced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He captioned the picture with, “Sweepers clean the stadium in readiness for the World XI match.”
https://twitter.com/DennisCricket_/status/907521353602940928
This irked the Indian fans all over the world due to the resentment between the two nations. The Indian fans were quick to retaliate and take a stand for their cricketing heroes. The men in blue have not played a bilateral series against their neighbor for the last five year due to the political turmoil between the two countries. Earlier, the head coach of World XI Andy Flower handed this issue quite smartly acknowledging the political problem.
And there is a team worse than sweepers… pic.twitter.com/rDnJRwO0gt
— Uday KASOJU (@Uday_kasoju) September 12, 2017
Don't mess with @imVkohli … Think before tweet.. What we are and What he is?☺️ pic.twitter.com/STxb47Nrgj
— ʍɑɾƘ zíղցҽɾҍíɾժ (@theninama) September 12, 2017
Kohli & Co received support all across the border even some Pakistani fans came forward to show their respect for the Indian captain.
Poor Pakistan ,they are getting overwhelmed by the fact that some players are daring to come to play in Pak .😂
— Chaitanya Varma (@BasicallyVarma) September 12, 2017
The series is tied at 1-1 with one match still to play. The Pakistan team defeated the World XI courtesy some wonderful batting from Babbar Azam. The World XI came back strongly in the second match of the series to make the series level.
— Uday KASOJU (@Uday_kasoju) September 12, 2017
Hahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QxwsljYhSa
— chetan98 (@nightmarechetan) September 12, 2017
Think this is very ill quoted, @imVkohli is legend and will remain one #WorldXI welcome to Pak
— KK11 (@1_PAK) September 12, 2017
atleast he is cleaning the place that had made him what he is today,u should also clean "Your mind"so that u can create something creative
— Ally_#Empathy²⁶⁰⁷🇮🇳 (@mintchocoksoo) September 12, 2017
This is not funny. I am from Pakistan and we love @imVkohli
— Khan (@FiveStar_Khan) September 12, 2017
Plz pray for World XI, We hope they will come back safely,i mean opponent Team have lot's of fan following like #terrorists & #sucidebombers
— Abhishek kumar (@abhii_619) September 12, 2017
Everybody chipped in with good performance to beat Pakistan by seven wickets. The cricket is played in right spirit, and the cricketing world saw the rarest sight when Darren Sammy applauded a toe-crushing yorker from Hasan Ali which made lose his foot hold and he was grounded.
