‘Pakistan Shocks India’: PM Khan takes a clean sweep over India
Lahore, 13th January: ‘Pakistan Shocks India’, the latest trend on social networking site, Twitter has taken the cricket fans by storm.
Baaghi TV: According to reports, an interesting poll was launched by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on January 12, in which it asked Twitter to choose the best cricketing legend among Pakistan’s Imran Khan, India’s Virat Kohli, South Africa’s AB de Villiers, and Australia’s Women team’s Meg Lanning.
Captaincy proved a blessing for some extraordinary cricketers 🧢🏏
Their averages improved as leaders 📈
You decide which of these ‘pacesetters’ were the best among these geniuses! pic.twitter.com/yWEp4WgMun
— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2021
The ICC said that the captaincy stood out for these four players and became a blessing for them. It said the players averages improved when they became leaders of their dressing room.
ICC wrote, “You decide which of these ‘pacesetters’ were the best among these geniuses!”
And undoubtedly, on Wednesday, our Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose game rose with leadership, won the Twitter poll by ICC.
Who would you rate as the best among these giants?
— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2021
A total of 536,346 votes were cast in the poll with Imran Khan securing 47.3% of the votes.
Close to Khan was India’s Virat Kohli, who remained second in the lead and received 46.2% of the votes.
Ab de Villiers bagged 6% of the votes while Meg Lanning ranked last after securing 0.5% of the votes.
First up, the inimitable Virat Kohli – batsman and captain extraordinaire 🙌 pic.twitter.com/uWwQoGqe2P
— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2021
The ICC tweets show that Virat Kohli’s average shot up to 73.88 from 51.29 in ODIs when he became the captain of the team.
Next we have Mr.360, AB de Villiers – a South Africa wonder 🔥 pic.twitter.com/5LKRbPoIjV
— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2021
On the other hand, South Africa’s Ab de Villiers average was 45.97 when he was not the captain but during the captaincy, the average shot up to 63.94.
Third on the list, the woman who led has Australia to multiple World Cup titles, Meg Lanning 🏆 pic.twitter.com/XFFZSndwOL
— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2021
Meanwhile, Meg Lanning also saw a spike in her average when she became the captain. The stats show that she was averaging 43.87 when she was not the captain, but while playing as the skipper her average rose to 60.93.
Lastly, Imran Khan, one of Pakistan’s greatest and leader of the 1992 @cricketworldcup triumph 🌟 pic.twitter.com/LyrZiybD4y
— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2021
Imran Khan, who is also the current prime minister of Pakistan, had a test average of 25.43 with the bat and 25.53 with the bowl in Tests. However, the world cup winning skipper’s Test average was 52.34 and when he was the captain his bowling average was 20.26.
Twitteratis couldn’t hold back the excitement over their favourite captain’s win and started pouring the website with interesting messages.
Ministers like Zartaj Gul Wazir and Sayed Zulfi Bukhari were thrilled to declare Khan’s victor:
In all fairness, the poll doesn't fully reflect the massive differential.
Imran Khan is inarguably the greatest cricketer and skipper to emerge from Sub Continent.
Kohli deserves lots of respect but it is unfair to pitch him against the original King Khan.#PakistanShocksIndia pic.twitter.com/wARPSAcmsi
— Zartaj Gul Wazir (@zartajgulwazir) January 13, 2021
Kaptaan PM @ImranKhanPTI isn’t just beating PDM 🏆 https://t.co/AoLxw8Rl3X
— Sayed Z Bukhari (@sayedzbukhari) January 13, 2021
Netizens shared funny memes too:
https://twitter.com/F_Z1214/status/1349252625657692160?s=20
Virat Kohli Right now after watching #ICC Poll final result ..#PakistanShocksIndia #CongratsPMIK pic.twitter.com/nq9E5TJeuY
— Malik Ali Raza (@MalikAliiRaza) January 13, 2021
And to top it all, Abhinandan was dragged into all this too:
A leader is always a leader and a father is always a father !!!
Let's have a tea party.
Because The Tea is Fantastic !
☕🇵🇰#PakistanShocksIndia #ImranKhan #CongratsPMIK pic.twitter.com/7NeJDLsBRX— Hassan Riaz Aheer (@HRA_07) January 13, 2021
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