Indian Twitterati Schools Brad Hogg For His Biased Tweet On No-Ball Controversy

The Indian cricket team registered an emphatic victory by 4 wickets in its first match against the arch-rivals Pakistan but there were few controversial moments as well including the no-ball by Mohammad Nawaz and 3 bye runs in the free hit delivery even after Virat Kohli was bowled.

A number of former cricketers especially from Pakistan have slammed the umpire for calling the ball as no-ball as many were of the opinion that no-ball should be reviewed. The Pakistani team also demanded the umpires to declare the delivery dead on which the Indian batters took 3 runs after the ball hit the stumps but their demand was not accepted by the umpires.

The former Australian cricketer Brad Hogg also raised questions in regard to these two issues as he took to the micro-blogging site Twitter and wrote, “Why was no ball not reviewed, then how can it not be a dead ball when Kohli was bowled on a free hit. #INDvPAK #T20worldcup22”

Soon Indian cricket fans fulfilled the responsibility of clearing the doubts of Brad Hogg:

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As far as the match is concerned, India put Pakistan to bat first after winning the toss and the latter gave the target of 160 runs to the former. The match had a nail-biting finish as the game got over on the last ball with R Ashwin taking the winning run. Virat Kohli was adjudged as the Player of the Match for his determined knock of 82 runs not out which he scored in 53 balls and his innings included 6 fours & 4 sixes.

India’s second match will be against Netherlands on 27^th Oct at Sydney Cricket Ground.

What do you think of the replies that have been given by the Indian cricket fans to Brad Hogg? Do let us know.