A brilliant century by Kumar Sangakkara hepled Sri Lanka to a thrilling two wicket win a over India in the Asia Cup 2014 group-stage match at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah, on Friday.
Predictably, India’s performance was criticized, and rightly so, on twitter particularity the bowlers. Here we take a look at some rib-tickling tweets of Friday’s match between two subcontinental giants.
This win from Sri Lanka has even surprised their Board official
SL Cricket board official: “lolwut! are we paying his dues regularly or what?” #Sanga #AsiaCup
— cricBC (@cricBC) February 28, 2014
Let us begin postmortem with a customary tweet on the state of India bowling which once again came under Twitterati’s scanner
भारतीय तेज़ गेंदबाज़ आमिर का शो नहीं देखेंगे क्योंकि इन्हें देश की फिक्र नहीं है।
— ख़बरबाज़ी (@khabarbaazi) February 28, 2014
Fast bowlers were the one who beard the most brunt of this India loss, check out this tweet – ouch! Hope Amir khan reads it
If @aamir_khan really cared about country he would have been a fast bowler! #AsiaCup #AsiaCup2014 #IndvsSL
— Nishith (@Nicks103) February 28, 2014
Many also blamed the India’s fielding particularly a miss stumping by Dinesh Karthik and drop catch by Shikhar Dhawan. They also announced punishment for respective crimes
Jayalalitha has announced that she will not allow @DineshKarthik & Shikhar Dhawan to play Indian Premier League matches in Chennai. #IndvsSL @fakingnews
— Ajith S Shetty (@ajith_shetty) February 28, 2014
One sane fan on Twitter had the class to praise opponents
Indian batting lineup failing against Ajantha Mendis in Asia cup has became a tradition now.. #frustrated #IndvsSL
— Vinu (@vinu_srinivasan) February 28, 2014
While most of us were concentrating on cricket others were worried about state of commentary on Star – a very legitimate question that!
4 days into #AsiaCup, what’s the verdict guys? Between English and Hindi commentary, which one’s likely to kill you faster? #IndvsSL
— Fake IPL Player (@_fakeiplplayer) February 28, 2014
While we are at the pathetic state of commentary here is another Tweet
The same guys I ran away from on English commentary landed up on Hindi commentary
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) February 28, 2014
R. Ashwin was back to his original self after flirting with Sunil Narine action on the last match against Bangladesh. The day is not far when the following scenario will become reality!
Soon we will be seeing Ashwin imitating various bowling actions and shouting “Pehchaan kaun” at the umpire instead of Howzzat. #AsiaCup
— cricBC (@cricBC) February 28, 2014
One fan also compared MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli’s captaincy by what they speak in presentation ceremony, excuses I tell you…
Kohli took 3 full seconds to blame the dew. That’s a huge improvement on Dhoni, who’d have begun his spiel with “Well ofcourse dew…”
— Nitin Sundar (@knittins) February 28, 2014
Many Indian fans, like this one, were confused at for what exactly Stuart Binny is in the team?!
What was the role of Stuart Binny in today’s #IndvsSL ? Is he given an all-rounder tag for confusing oppositions?? No bowling & no batting!!
— Sashwato Chatterjee (@Sashwato_C) February 28, 2014
Our Twitter round-up will not end with out a customary Tweet which trolls Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma was shocked when given out LBW. He thought the BCCI had taken care of these things. #AsiaCup
— Fake IPL Player (@_fakeiplplayer) February 28, 2014
