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.”
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.