ICC promptly diverts Champions Trophy tour away from PoK cities after BCCI’s objections
The original tour schedule included cities like Skardu, Hunza and Muzaffarabad, which fall in the PoK region, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan.
On Wednesday, the football fans witnessed the biggest upset when the defending champions, Germany, were knocked out of the tournament in the group stage. Germany suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of South Korea in their last group match.
After the dramatic exit of Germany from FIFA World Cup 2018, Cricket Germany found a unique way to troll International Cricket Council (ICC) by giving a hilarious suggestion to FIFA to avoid such upsets.
Cricket Germany took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter, and taking a dig at ICC for allowing only 10 teams to participate in a World Cup, saying: “We hereby ask #FIFA to make the next #WorldCup open only to ten teams.”
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We hereby ask #FIFA to make the next #WorldCup open only to ten teams 🏏🇩🇪
— Cricket Germany 🏏 (@Cricket_Germany) June 27, 2018
Cricket Finland also joined the conversation and wrote, “Indeed. And just think of all the money they would lose (not) as a result!?! 🏏🇫🇮.”
Indeed. And just think of all the money they would lose (not) as a result!?! 🏏🇫🇮
— Cricket Finland (@CricketFinland) June 27, 2018
Here is how Twitterati reacted to Cricket Germany’s sly dig:
Cricket limited mostly to asian countries! @icc murdering cricket
Doing nothing just fulfilling the giants and own bags
See #FIFAWORLDCUP18 looks so gr8 with 32 teams and so many upsets and ppl loving them
CRICKET too needs new dimensions
10 team WC sucks😣— 😎 (@kohli_lover) June 28, 2018
@ICC trolled 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
— faisuee wanii (@Faisalmajeedwa5) June 27, 2018
@icelandcricket would love your views on this.. 😉 #FifaWorldCup2018 #WorldCup
— Amit Khadikar (@AmitKhadikar) June 27, 2018
So that favourites wouldn’t be eliminated in first round!
— Goutham (@goutham120586) June 28, 2018
😂😂👍👍👍 biased ICC
— Ashish T (@AshishShrawan) June 27, 2018
And @ICC should make 4 team cricket world cup
— Gurwinder Kahlon (@GurwinderKahlo6) June 27, 2018
This is brilliant!
— Arun Upreti (@i_alunir) June 28, 2018
Notably, Germany are not among the 10 teams who will be participating in the Cricket World Cup 2019.
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