Bangladesh quick bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib discovered himself within the information following a fiery send-off to Indian cricket group star batter Virat Kohli throughout their T20 World Cup 2024 Tremendous 8 encounter on Saturday. Tanzim castled Kohli and adopted it up with an aggressive celebration that turned a topic of debate on social media. Whereas social media customers had numerous issues to say in regards to the incident, one other cricketer who as soon as gave a send-off to Kohli has joined the dialog. West Indies quick bowler Kesrick Williams as soon as gave an notorious ‘pocket book’ send-off to Kohli – an motion that resulted within the India star taking him to the cleaners throughout a match in 2017. Williams took to social media to react to a meme the place his edited picture gave the impression to be telling Tanzim to prepare for the same onslaught.
“Kez 2-1 Kohli,” he wrote whereas quoting the meme on his Instagram story.
Kesrick Williams’ Instagram story.pic.twitter.com/FJLhLYl3pv
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Through the time when he was once a daily for West Indies, Williams used to rejoice dismissals by writing the names of the batters in an imaginary pocket book. He did the same celebration in opposition to Kohli throughout a limited-overs sequence in West Indies however it didn’t go down properly with the India star.
When West Indies toured India just a few months later, Kohli slammed Williams for 32 off simply 12 deliveries and even did the identical ‘pocket book celebration’ to taunt the West Indies cricketer.
In the meantime, Australia opener David Warner got here in assist of Virat Kohli and stated the batter faces loads of pointless criticism for his strike price.
“It is simply his ardour for the sport, like, he is received a knack for indetermination only for scoring runs and starvation to attain runs. , he cops loads of criticism, which isn’t proper. I do not know why he cops it, however there are lots of people on the market who’re large Virat supporters, like all of us,” he stated on Star Sports activities.
“Now, we’re in awe of the good gamers which have performed this recreation, and we’re lucky to take the sector with. So, you understand, for him, he constantly goes about his enterprise how he does. , he scores loads of runs. He is a superb group man and he competes laborious. And that is what we like about developing in opposition to the Indian cricket group,” he added.
(With IANS inputs)
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