India cricket great Sachin Tendulkar received a lot of flak on social media for his tweet against foreign celebrities extending support to the ongoing farmer's protest. Tendulkar had opposed the interference in India's affairs by tweeting on hashtag #IndiaTogether.

Kerala pacer Sreesanth has come in support of Tendulkar after he faced criticism. He posted a tweet and said Sachin is an emotion and there are a lot of cricketers in the country who started playing cricket because of him. 

"Sachin Paaji is an emotion. He’s the reason many boys like me aspired to play for our country. No words can express my love nd gratitude for @sachin_rt paaji. Thank u for being born in India. U have and u will always be the pride of India. #IStandWithSachin #NationWithSachin", he tweeted.

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The cricket fans who are in support of the farmers were disappointed with Sachin's tweet. There was also a derogatory trend on Twitter against the ex-India cricketer.

Some of the fans had even gone to Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova's social media accounts to apologize for slamming her after the famous incident in 2014. She was unaware of the India cricketer and had questioned 'who's Sachin?'. 

It all started after international pop-star Rihanna's tweet asking why is no one talking about the issue. Sachin and other Indian cricketers had reacted to the situation by tweeting on the same hashtag #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropoganda.