Cricket fans have been treated with the privilege of watching Cheteshwar Pujara and Mohammad Rizwan play together. The Asian cricketers are currently representing Sussex in the County Championship. As a matter of fact, both of them have been superb in the tournament so far.
The game between the Tom Haines-led side and Durham saw Pujara and Rizwan come together to put on a 154-run partnership as well. During the third day of the game, the Indian batter went on to score a magnificent 203 from 334 balls. His knock consisted of 24 boundaries.
He was well supported by Rizwan, who scored 79. Prior to the third day's play on Saturday, Sussex took to Twitter to post a video of the duo on their official Twitter handle. In the clip, they were seemingly discussing something. This was during their training session. However, they weren't audible in the video.
Thus, it was very hard to understand what they were speaking. Nevertheless, several Twitter users were up for the challenge, and decided to decode their conversation. A fan pointed out that Pujara and Rizwan were speaking in either Hindi or Urdu. Several other fans gave their own interpretations, and tried to understand what the two cricketers were trying to speak.
Rizwan x Pujara pre-match prep. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/g3vVwefsQf
— Sussex Cricket (@SussexCCC) April 30, 2022
"Aap aye the pehle? Pichle saal Sussex se khele the? Acha acha. Last match. Bas yahi samaj ayi to 😅" read the Tweet of a fan. "Rizwan to Pujara " Aap Aaye the phle ? " bus itna samaj m Aaya" said another fan. In the meanwhile, Pujara became only the second Indian batter after Mohammad Azharuddin to score two double hundreds in the English County Championship.
The 34-year-old is the second-highest run-scorer of the tournament so far. He has scored 531 runs in five innings at a whopping average of 132.75. He and Rizwan will now be seen in action during Sussexs' next game against Middlesex. This match is set to start on May 5.
Here are some of the Tweets that tried to decode Cheteshwar Pujara and Mohammad Rizwan's conversation:
Aap aaye thei pehle dinn?
— tanya // ee sala cup namde #rcb (@traumatied) April 30, 2022
Lemme decode it.
— Akka (@humza_umair) April 30, 2022
Rizwan: Ap pehly bhi yahan sy khelty thy?last year?
Pujara:(inaudible)
Rizwan: jinsy last match tha?
Pujara:(inaudible)
Rizwan: acha aur tha
‘Abhi lihaz karrha hun , t20 WC mein choron ga nahi’ https://t.co/RNmagNQGrG
— samia 🇵🇰 (@stfusamia) April 30, 2022
They're speaking in Urdu/Hindi ... what an opportunity for Rizwan ❤
— Arsalan Abbasi (@Arsal83) May 1, 2022
Rizwan to Pujara " Aap Aaye the phle ? " bus itna samaj m Aaya
— AShu (@025ashutosh) April 30, 2022
Aap aye the pehle? Pichle saal Sussex se khele the? Acha acha. Last match. Bas yahi samaj ayi to 😅
— Ubaid Khan (@roguelarka) April 30, 2022
Just understood this thing of Rizwan I think Rizwan is speaking safai to kare gi 😜
— MaSooMa_ Rizz_World 🇵🇰🇵🇸 (@Masooma_99) April 30, 2022
We'll do practice later, first let's go to have biryani.
— Sachin Sagar 🇮🇳 (@sachin_31sagar) April 30, 2022
🤫
Lemme decode it.
— Adil Rashid (@adil_rash95) April 30, 2022
Rizwan: Ap pehly bhi yahan sy khelty thy?last year?
Pujara:(inaudible)
Rizwan: jinsy last match tha?
Pujara:(inaudible)
Rizwan: acha aur tha
Last year last year last year, bus yehi sunai diya hai😁😁
— Aisha Bilal (@AishaBilal36117) April 30, 2022