Essex posts cheeky tweet on Virat Kohli, his fans come up with epic responses
London: India were made to sweat by Essex who reached 237-5 on the second day of their tour match at Chelmsford on Thursday with their discomfort under sweltering sunshine compounded by fears over the fitness of key spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
Virat Kohli's team, playing their only warm-up match before the Test series against England gets under way next Wednesday, were dismissed for 395 after resuming on 322-6.
When skipper Kohli struck a half-century, Essex’s Twitter handle came up with a cheeky tweet that did not go down well with many of his fans.
This guy’s not bad at cricket...
— Essex Cricket (@EssexCricket) July 25, 2018
50 up for @imVkohli off 67 balls! 👌#ESSvIND pic.twitter.com/CS6ObCNweT
The tweet showed a video of Kohli celebrating his fifty after a boundary with the caption, “This guy’s not bad at cricket.” While there was nothing objectionable, Kohli's fans did not hold back.
Whole world know he is a run machine in world cricket nd u guys know now 😂😂ðŸðŸ‘ #ESSvIND #ViratKohli #legend keep going captain @imVkohli
— yaana (@Vishakha68899) July 25, 2018
Baap hai wo tumahara
— GabbaR (@LogicalGabbar) July 25, 2018
The second slip fielder from Essex is a big admirer of @imVkohli. He's clapping nonstop for kohli as soon as he's reached his half century.
— Abinash Gogoi (@Abinash70425459) July 25, 2018
He is the next legend u can also say living legend of
— Steve. (@gulzarkkhan) July 25, 2018
The caption should be ... This guy's unbelievable in cricket
— Virat's_girl:* (@coolmonideepa) July 25, 2018
Wasted all his runs in a friendly
— Seb Miller (@SebYeboahMiller) July 25, 2018
Sounds bad for England in next series
— Deep@k Verm@ (@deepaka0615) July 26, 2018
The home team then reached 237-5 at stumps after half-centuries from Tom Westley (57) and Michael Pepper (68).
Off-spinner Ashwin has played no part -- with just one day remaining on Friday -- after taking a knock to the right hand during practice.
Dinesh Karthik top-scored with 82 for India having failed to add to his overnight score while Hardik Pandya hit 51.
On Wednesday, Kohli scored 68 while KL Rahul (58) and Murali Vijay (53) also spent time in the middle.
