India and Pakistan locked horns for the second time in the Asia Cup 2022 in the Super 4 round. It was not the Men in Blue's day as they lost the match by five wickets. Fans did not take the defeat easily and a few of them started abusing one player who dropped a sitter.
Arshdeep Singh dropped Asif Ali's catch off Ravi Bishnoi in the 18th over. Many fans opined that the Indian bowler took the game casually and admitted that he should have caught it. After dropping the catch, the body language from the young pacer was not well received and many critics questioned his antics.
Fans later discovered that most of the accounts on Twitter that trolled him were fake and many of them traced back to Pakistan. Commentator Aakash Chopra changed his profile picture in support of the left-armer. Harbhajan Singh, the former Indian spinner, came up with a tweet supporting the youngster. But, the former cricketer faced the wrath of angry fans soon after he posted the tweet.
In his tweet, Singh blamed the Indian fans who trolled Arshdeep Singh for his drop catch. However, fans retaliated by pointing out that most of them were fake accounts from Pakistan.
"Stop criticising young @arshdeepsinghh No one drop the catch purposely..we are proud of our boys .. Pakistan played better.. shame on such people who r putting our own guys down by saying cheap things on this platform bout arsh and team.. Arsh is GOLD," the 42-year-old tweeted.
Stop criticising young @arshdeepsinghh No one drop the catch purposely..we are proud of our 🇮🇳 boys .. Pakistan played better.. shame on such people who r putting our own guys down by saying cheap things on this platform bout arsh and team.. Arsh is GOLD🇮🇳
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) September 4, 2022
This received a lot of criticism from fans, who wanted him to figure out that most criticisms were from the other side of the border. They enlightened the former cricketer quote tweeting a few tweets from Pakistan and said that it was not right to blame Indian fans.
Arshdeep Singh's brilliant comeback
Albeit the pacer dropped his catch, he made a stunning comeback in the final over. After being forced to defend seven runs off the final six balls, Arshdeep Singh almost defended it. He managed to pick the scalp of Asif Ali, whom he dropped earlier. Amid all the chaos, fans did come up with the hashtag in support of the young pacer.
We have handpicked a few tweets of fans retaliating back to Harbhajan Singh. Here are those tweets:
After winning the match many Pakistanis automatically started worrying for Arshdeep, in a protective sort of a way. We knew this would happen. Very predictable.
— Maria Sartaj (@MariaSartaj) September 4, 2022
Bhajji aap bhi bik gaye, Pakistani propaganda faila rahe. Shame!
— The Poll Lady (@ThePollLady) September 4, 2022
Nobody from India is criticizing him. It was propaganda by Pakistanis and was run by fake accounts to put India in bad light. You need to stop supporting Anti-India propaganda. Try to expose them instead. Shame!
— Snehal 🇮🇳™ (@Saffron_Sn) September 4, 2022
Why are you amplifying Pak!stani agenda? Are you also part of the same toolkit?
— Bruhan Nadda🚩🇮🇳 (@AadhySanatani) September 5, 2022
It all started with Pakistan based Twitter account like Shami and some of their supporters sitting in our country spread it. We should very careful about these incidents. Enemies are always waiting for these moments.
— Vedant (@Vedant46419336) September 5, 2022
Fake narrative alert!
— Prateek (@prateekfq) September 5, 2022
See photo, it's Pakistan's narrative...
— 🚩🚩 NDT 🇮🇳🇮🇳 (@NDT11841618) September 6, 2022
How come tweet within 2 mins of catch drop? Was it preplanned with #pakistan @harbhajan_singh ? pic.twitter.com/EIKcrBgSmd
— gokulnath rajukutty 🇮🇳 (@gokulnathr) September 6, 2022
Shame on you to incite communal hate and conflict . You are being sponsored by Indian enemies to do all this
— tea_overdosed (@tea_overdosed) September 6, 2022
A person who dropped a catch is much better than a person who falls in the enemy's trap of maligning a fellow Indian.
— Pranav Mahajan (@pranavmahajan) September 5, 2022