An Australian journalist tried to troll the Indian captain Virat Kohli on Twitter and folks on the Internet gave him a piece of their mind with a smashing reply.
India vs Australia series is just around the corner and anything related to Virat Kohli and Co. grabs major eyeballs. One Australian journalist with a Twitter handle @DennisCricket_ posted a picture of Kohli and other Indian Team members in the background sweeping some stadiums, which only invited anger of the players supporters and became a victim of trolling by all cricket fans online.
Sweepers clean the stadium in readiness for the World XI match pic.twitter.com/QWzzW13OFc
— Karachi in 3 days (@DennisCricket_) September 12, 2017
The photograph was taken last year when Virat Kohli took part in Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan. Calling Virat Kohli a “sweeper”, this is what Dennis wrote in his tweet. This act by the Aussie journalist was enough to ignite Kohli fans. Virat Kohli’s fans from India and Pakistan blasted him and thrashed him on Twitter for insulting their star.
Soon after the tweet was posted, there was an onslaught of reactions, with twitterers lashing out at his insensitivity. “Think this is very ill quoted, @imVkohli is legend and will remain one #WorldXI welcome to Pak,” one of them tweeted, while another wrote: “Doing practice before sweeping aussies!” Giving him a smashing reply for posting the picture which seems to have been taken during the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’ campaign, one user replied: “Wow… Thanks for showing how good we
Giving him a smashing reply for posting the picture, one user said: “Wow… Thanks for showing how good we indians are… We know to clean the place we worship. So keep making india proud of their culture.”