A tweet by the ICC’s official handle about England all-rounder Ben Stokes has fans of Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar up in arms, again.
In its tweet after the World Cup final, the ICC handle tweeted a picture of Stokes with Tendulkar at the award ceremony and tweeted it with the caption: “The greatest cricketer of all time – and Sachin Tendulkar.” There was even a winking emoji, but the tweet did not go down well with Tendulkar fans.
After Stokes’ spectacular performance in the third Ashes Test, the ICC handle shared the July 15 tweet again with the caption “Told you so”. And not surprisingly, Tendulkar fans are enraged again.
While cricket fans agreed that Stokes deserved all the appreciation for his game-changing performance at the Headingley Test, they did not agree with the assessment that he was greater than Tendulkar.
https://twitter.com/rs_social15/status/1166426039121108992
Stokes has been hogging the limelight since the epic World Cup 2019 final when he was awarded the Man of the Match by Sachin Tendulkar. He followed that up with a superb performance in the ongoing Ashes series where he almost single-handedly took England to victory in the third Test.
It wasn’t the only tweet from the ICC handle about Stokes. The ICC said that the English cricketer was briefly searched for more than pop star Taylor Swift and had a tweet incorporating her songs like ‘Bad Blood’, ‘Love Story,’ ‘Gorgeous,’ ‘Wildest Dreams’, ‘Shake it Off’ and ‘Out Of The Woods’.
Stokes hasn’t responded to either of the tweets yet.
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