The India-Pakistan thriller, performed in entrance of 90,293 followers on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), has taken all the cricketing world abruptly. Former India captain Virat Kohli delivered a surprising efficiency to information India to a surprising last-ball victory over Pakistan within the opening match of a dramatic T20 World Cup on Sunday.
Social media has made a splash by calling it a Diwali present from Virat Kohli to the entire nation.
Cricket fanatic Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted saying that he celebrated Diwali by revisiting the final three overs.
completely happy Diwali! Hope everybody celebrating is having a good time together with your family and friends.
I celebrated once more immediately by watching the final three overs, what a sport and efficiency #Diwali #teamindia #T20WC2022— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) 24 October 2022
He wrote on Twitter, ‘Happy Diwali! Hope everybody celebrating is having a good time together with your family and friends. I celebrated once more immediately by watching the final three overs, what a sport and efficiency #Diwali #StaffIndia #T20WC2022.”
Pichai even countered a troll along with his wit when he was requested to observe the primary three overs, indicating India’s innings after they misplaced the wickets of skipper Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.
Did that too 🙂 What mantra did Bhuvi and Arshdeep give
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) 24 October 2022
He replied: “Did that bhi did, what mantra Bhuvi and Arshdeep did.”
After sending Pakistan to bat first, India put quite a lot of stress on them with left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh eradicating star batsman Mohammad Rizwan and captain Babar Azam within the first 4 overs. However, half-centuries from Iftikar Ahmed (51) and Shan Masood (52) helped them convey them to a decent complete.
India rapidly stumbled of their chase as a consequence of a mixture of very good bowling, poor pictures and mistaken working. At one level India fell 31-4 earlier than Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya rekindled India’s hopes with an astonishing 113-run stand for the fifth wicket.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
