Last Updated on 2 months by Charbel Coorey
It’s been an eventful few weeks in the cricket world, and you can always count on fans on Twitter to make you laugh! Plenty has gone on – drama in the Nidahas Trophy, KG v Australia and the ICC, PSL 2018 and the World Cup Qualifiers.
I’ve compiled the tweets I found really funny over the last week or so, and give a shout out to all who put them together!
During the heated exchanges at the end of the Sri Lanka v Bangladesh match, the winner was this tweet. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka nearly traded blows in an attempt to reach the final against India, which was the perfect opportunity for a cheeky tweet by an India fan aimed at the Asian rivals… You’ve got to love it.
Bangladesh nearly proved you wrong, mate, but they ended up runners up! All the drama in the end was certainly to be the runners up – superb tweet.
Be sure to give @swing_seam a follow!
2. The picture on the left had me in tears…
As you all know, Steve Smith was brutally hit by Kagiso Rabada after being dismissed in the first innings of the 2nd Test. The Australian captain needed an ambulance, and all players paid respect by stopping play for 15 minutes, the number of headaches Smith has had since then after such a huge knock.
Cricket Babe is always posting awesome stuff, be sure to give her a follow!
3. Kagiso Rabada is so good that he can even remove Arsene Wenger!
I am also a football fan and support Arsenal, so I found this tweet by
@simphiwe_majola so damn good!
Arsene Wenger has been manager for 21 years at Arsenal and has been in decline for at least three years. The board won’t remove him, and he won’t go, but KG is good enough to remove him! Great tweet!
4. Snicko will tell us more!
@DirkiePret went to UltraEdge to detect any contact, and even the latest technology in the cricket world couldn’t detect anything! Had a huge chuckle at the “review” comment…
The ICC has carried on as if the UltraEdge was bigger than Stuart Broad’s edge to Michael Clarke in the 2015 Ashes in England, where he didn’t walk.
Brilliant tweet, sir.
5. Thoughts and prayers…
@MaxduPreez raising awareness of Steve Smith’s need for support in this hour of need.
Word on the street is that the ICC has donated US$10 million to the #RabadaAppeal instead of bothering to televise more games in the World Cup Qualifiers. Priorities, ICC…
6. Backed up beautifully…
@Whamzam17, going by the big donation by the ICC to the #RabadaAppeal, it is still very possible that Steve Smith’s career could be over after that shoulder barge.
Super reply!
7. Creativity at its finest…
Bangladesh, after beating Sri Lanka to reach the Nidahas Trophy Final, broke out in the “Nagin Dance” in the centre of the field, by which all Sri Lanka fans were pretty much like “yep, we’re supporting India in the final”.
@Sirbumrah93 posted this beauty of players photoshopped onto actors from Bajatey Raho, a movie I have no idea about, but still had me laughing as I searched the original clips. Sir, I still don’t know who made this, but since I first came across it through you, I say well done to you.
8. Not today, you don’t!
A video of a child grabbing the neck of a bird as it tried to take its food went viral over the last few weeks.
@Chainaka used it perfectly as a way of saying to Bangladesh that they still have to wait for their first ever win in T20Is v India and first win in finals… Dinesh Karthik stole it!
9. Yes, the ICC continues to make us all laugh…
Come on, ICC. You can’t donate against the #RabadaAppeal and then make it as if you love him.
@PoppingCreaseSA put it perfectly… “hey let’s praise this kid, tell everyone how much we love watching him play, but we’ll do everything we can to ban him!”
Super tweet. Be sure to give
@PoppingCreaseSA a follow for excellent cricket content.
10. ICC will still find a reason to ban him, @titchdefyne…
If South Africa want Kagiso Rabada to play as many games as possible, they should take advice from @titchdefyne
What a brilliant caption!
11. The final step!
As a Bangladesh fan, I’m heartbroken at another loss in a final, but this is a brilliant tweet deserving of all those likes and retweets! Bangladesh have made the Nagin Dance famous in this tournament, and showed it off (which was cocky) after beating Sri Lanka in a spiteful clash two days before the final.
Pictured is a distraught Soumya Sarkar who bowled the last over.
@zZoker delivered when it counted, sending Twitter into laughter just as Bangladesh lost.
12. ICC: “We are really smart! We care so much about the Associate Nations and the World Cup Qualifiers! Oh wait…”
@jperry_cricket exposed the ICC and their stupid mistakes, mixing up the results in the Scotland v Zimbabwe match at the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers. It was a memorable match that finished in a tie, but it clearly wasn’t memorable enough for the ICC.
Didn’t know a tie was a loss for one team and a win for another…
Laughed at loud at this… Good work ICC.
Also,
@jperry_cricket put out a magnificent article on the World Cup Qualifiers and how the ICC is thinking short term. It is a quality read, make sure you check it out
here.
——Any other tweets you found hilarious! Be sure to share them with me! I’d like to make this kind of post a regular one.
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