Former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif came under heavy trolling after he hailed new Test captain Rohit Sharma and the new coach of Indian team Rahul Dravid for shaping up a world-beating unit under their leadership.
Rohit Sharma took over as India T20I and ODI captain from the New Zealand T20I series at home and then made his Test captaincy debut against Sri Lanka recently and whitewashed the visitors 2-0 in the series. This included a 238-run win in the second Test in Bengaluru which was a day-night encounter.
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Mohammad Kaif tweeted, ”KL, Rohit, Vihari, Kohli, Iyer, Pant, Jadeja, Ash, Bumrah, Shami and many No.11 options ... Suddenly, it all looks fine. Under Rohit and Dravid, a world-beating Test unit is taking shape.”
However, this tweet didn’t sit down well with cricket Twitter as they felt and criticized Mohammad Kaif for devaluing the work done by former captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri in the past seven years. The netizens panned Mohammad Kaif for not acknowledging the role of former leadership group of the team.
Here are some tweets: