{"id":2721,"date":"2017-10-04T14:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:29:54","slug":"australian-journalist-mocks-virat-kohli-by-calling-him-sweeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/australian-journalist-mocks-virat-kohli-by-calling-him-sweeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Journalist Mocks Virat Kohli by calling him Sweeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2725\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2725\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium\" width=\"418\" height=\"418\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium-696x698.jpg 696w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium-419x420.jpg 419w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virat-Kohli-cleaning-stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nIndia 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sweepers clean the stadium in readiness for the World XI match <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QWzzW13OFc\">pic.twitter.com\/QWzzW13OFc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karachi in 3 days (@DennisCricket_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DennisCricket_\/status\/907521353602940928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The photograph was taken last year when Virat Kohli took part in Modi\u2019s Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan. Calling Virat Kohli a \u201csweeper\u201d, this is what Dennis wrote in his tweet. This act by the Aussie journalist was enough to ignite Kohli fans. Virat Kohli\u2019s fans from India and Pakistan blasted him and thrashed him on Twitter for insulting their star.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the tweet was posted, there was an onslaught of reactions, with twitterers lashing out at his insensitivity. \u201cThink this is very ill quoted, @imVkohli is legend and will remain one #WorldXI welcome to Pak,\u201d one of them tweeted, while another wrote: \u201cDoing practice before sweeping aussies!\u201d Giving him a smashing reply for posting the picture which seems to have been taken during the \u2018Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan\u2019 campaign, one user replied: \u201cWow\u2026 Thanks for showing how good we<br \/>\nGiving him a smashing reply for posting the picture, one user said: \u201cWow\u2026 Thanks for showing how good we indians are\u2026 We know to clean the place we worship. So keep making india proud of their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1338],"tags":[3143,3144,3145,1403],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-cricket-news","tag-giving-smashing-reply","tag-smashing-reply","tag-swachh-bharat-abhiyaan","tag-virat-kohli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}