Virat Kohli sublime performance on Sunday helped Team India storm into the semifinals of the World T20 cricket tournament with a sensational six-wicket victory over Australia. Kohli scored 82 from just 51 runs and shared a brilliant 67-run partnership with Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni which proved to be the match-winner against the Australia.
While everyone was congratulating and celebrating India’s win and passage into the semi-finals, Amitabh Bachchan was doing the same and more. He posted a humorous response to former England player Andrew Flintoff. Here’s what happened when the Indian actor ‘virtually’ locked horns with the English cricketer.
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan has hit out at former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff on Twitter. Flintoff after India’s win over Australia in Match No.31 had send out a tweet in which rated India’s man of the match Virat Kohli below England’s leading run scorer in the tournament Joe Root.
T 2188 – @imVkohli you were brilliance times infinity !! Pure genius. Thank you for tonight ! And may many more such nights come our way !!
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) March 27, 2016
At this rate @imVkohli will be as good as @root66 one day ! Not sure who @englandcricket will meet in the final now !
— andrew flintoff (@flintoff11) March 27, 2016
@flintoff11 @imVkohli @root66 @englandcricket Root who ? जड़ से उखाड़ देंगे Root ko ..!!!
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) March 27, 2016
Sorry who’s this ? ? https://t.co/sjhs7HGT1d
— andrew flintoff (@flintoff11) March 27, 2016
.@flintoff11 @SrBachchan @imVkohli @root66 @englandcricket
Visit Madame Tussauds, London. You’ll know who’s he.— Virat Kohli (@Bees_Kut) March 27, 2016
Beta @flintoff11,
“Rishtey Me To Wo Tumhare Baap Lagtey Hain, Naam Hai Shahenshaah”. 😉 @SrBachchan#IndvsAuspic.twitter.com/r4dKZjV2YX
— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) March 27, 2016
Amitabh Bachchan was speaking of Joe Root and ‘uprooting’ him in what is expected to be a subtle yet humorous dig were India to face England in the final.
