Recently, India played a warm up match against Cricket Australia XI, and the BCCI posted live updates of the match throughout, beginning from the coin toss.
The BCCI posted,
CA XI have won the toss and will field first #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/J8fb8BJp8x
— BCCI (@BCCI) November 28, 2018
The picture posted by BCCI showed Virat Kohli in shorts, which apparently angered a lot of netizens on Twitter. He received a lot of flak for it and people even called him disrespectful.
The fans pointed out that cricket is called a gentleman’s game and that a certain code of decorum must be maintained at all costs. Virat Kohli stepping out in shorts creates a bad impression and makes him seem disrespectful as well.
People are also comparing Kohli to previous sportsmen and their dressing sense, which was considered to be graceful. One tweet read, “Disgraceful and disrespectful… There was time captains used to wear Blazers during toss…. This behavior is absolutely unpardonable….”
Check out some of the tweets here:
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https://twitter.com/Prakash1049/status/1067910745575157761
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This @imVkohli bad attitude is showing no any respect for game and their legacy why @bcci @icc @accessonline n other cricket members think about this. Where is #sunilgavaskar who taunted in #Aisacup to Pakistaniplayer for their cap??? What @imVkohli is showing
— yhr studios (@YhrStore) November 28, 2018
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Wow what a logic it’s means u can come in underwear 😇😇😇😅😂🤣 from where you people taking such types of logic sssssssssssssssss. just look 👀 other two guy are with proper dressed
— yhr studios (@YhrStore) November 29, 2018
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https://twitter.com/appy10_/status/1067913187809472512
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Disrespectful act by @imVkohli wearing shorts during toss
— Khalid Bin Ahmed (@KhalidTantray1) November 29, 2018
But some of course pointed out the obvious, and defended Kohli. Take a look:
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It was a practice match for God's sake..
— Kunal Kashyap (@kunalkashyap855) November 29, 2018
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What about this??People only want to troll Kohli.. pic.twitter.com/Ye23rsukcw
— Piyush Chaudhari (@PiyushC12132870) November 29, 2018
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as they say when you becomes successful there will be haters and they will point every silly thing,go get a life people its just a practice match he is more dedicated to cricket compare to you keyboard warriors.#Kingkohli
— Ashish (@hashish0077) November 29, 2018
Do you think it was wrong to wear shorts for the coin toss?
