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The 20-20 World Cup 2022 started with the opening match of the tournament between Namibia and Sri Lanka. In a shocking happening for everyone in the cricketing fraternity, Namibia outmuscled the Sri Lankan team by a massive margin of 55 runs to win the first match in an amazing style.
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Following this upset, the fans took to social media, and very soon, it was flooded with congratulatory posts for the Namibian team. But among all this, some of the social media users happened to find a link between Sri Lanka’s defeat and the former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir.
Gambhir is known for his infamous ability to jinx the teams and players. Subsequently, he recently hailed the Islanders teams before their first match of the tournament against Namibia.
The 41-year-old went on to say that the Sri Lankan teams are on a winning run since they won the Asia Cup title and could be a threat to the Indians and other teams as well in the 20-20 World Cup 2022.
“Sri Lanka, because of the kind of success they have had at the Asia Cup. The way they are playing, the way they are probably peaking at the right time. And with Chameera and Lahiru Kumara coming in, they probably got most of their places covered. They are going to be a threat and so they are going to take a lot of confidence into the T20 World Cup,” said Gambhir to Star Sports.
Fans took no time in taking a dig at Gautam Gambhir on his jinxing capacity of cursing any team or individual with praise.
Here’s how fans reacted to Gautam Gambhir’s statement followed by Sri Lanka’s defeat:
Gautam Gambhir's curse has gone international now😱😱😱 https://t.co/GzSwR50OB8
— thalafans (@thalafa64581653) October 16, 2022
For this debacle of @OfficialSLC#gautamgambhir is responsible #SLvsNAM pic.twitter.com/G7ABapkNae
— Gone Insane (@SEXYnerd1311) October 16, 2022
Gambhir before Asia Cup " there are 0% chances of Sri Lanka winning Asia Cup"
— Bhatti Sahb💞 (@BhattiS69920373) October 16, 2022
*Result - Sri Lanka won Asia Cup
Gambhir before 2022 T20WC
"Sri Lanka is one of the favourite to win T20WC"
*Result - Namibia beat Sri Lanka in 1st game 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/c5K1NPc27h
Namibia: hold my drink 🍸 https://t.co/o0RG6jlQkg
— Leg_Cutter🏏 (@TweetECricket) October 16, 2022
@GautamGambhir 😂😂😂😂😂
— Mohamed (@trendinglanka) October 16, 2022
Lost to Namibian team 🤣 pic.twitter.com/C3wGZ2howm
Speaking of the match, Jan Frylinck and JJ Smit played the brilliant knocks of 44 and 31 runs respectively to take Namibia to a decent total of 163 runs for the loss of seven wickets in the allotted 20 overs. While defending the target, four Namibian bowlers scalped two wickets each.