It is Sachin Tendulkar's birthday today and the Indian cricket fans are celebrating the day by showering their love on the player on social media. The player has almost all the records in his name. He happens to be the man who hit most centuries in both test and one day cricket. However, Cricket Australia has not been unable to digest the fan following Sachin enjoys.
Cricket Australia has posted a tweet that otherwise intends to congratulate the Australian bowler Damien Fleming. But the way, Cricket Australia decided to do this did not go well with the Indian fans and they have expressed their rage online protesting the tweet. The tweet actually shows Damien Fleming balling and the ball directly hit the stumps and Sachin got clean bold.
Some @bowlologist gold from the man himself - happy birthday, Damien Fleming! pic.twitter.com/YcoYA8GNOD
— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) April 24, 2018
According to the fans, CA could have used a different video or photo to celebrate Damien's birthday bu t they did it in order to hurt the sentiments of the Indian fans and uploaded it anyway.
People said that the act was morally corrupt and intended at hurting world's greatest batsman. The video shared in the Twitter post is from a match played in Perth in the year 2000. Indian team was struggling with its form in the mentioned period.
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