Former West Indies pace bowler Tino Best has hit back on veteran Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh for his comment on the current West Indies team that is touring India.

In the opening Test match of the two-match series between Indian and West Indie, the latter were outplayed by the hosts in a lopsided contest at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot.

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Virat Kohli-led Indian outfit slammed the Windies team and wrapped up the match within three days to register their biggest win in the longest format of the game.

During the first match of the series, cricketer-turned-commentator Harbhajan Singh had questioned the quality of the Windies team. Harbhajan Singh has also claimed that the visiting side were not even good enough to compete against the elite teams in Ranji Trophy.

“With all due respect to West Indies Cricket but I have a question for u all…will this west Indies team qualify for Ranji quarters from the plate group? Elite se to nahin hoga 🧐 #INDvsWI,” Harbhajan Singh wrote on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Friday (5th October).

With all due respect to West Indies Cricket but I have a question for u all…will this west Indies team qualify for Ranji quarters from the plate group? Elite se to nahin hoga 🧐 #INDvsWI

— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) October 5, 2018

Former Windies pacer Tino Best was not too pleased with Harbhajan’s tweet and hit back at the 38-year-old. Responding to Harbhajan Singh’s Tweet, Tino took a potshot at India’s performance during the Test series in England, where they lost the five-match series 1-4.

” Hey bro didn’t see these cocky tweets vs England 🤷🏾‍♂️ …. but anyhow the young men will learn 🙏🏾,” Tino wrote on Harbhajan Singh’s post.

Hey bro didn’t see these cocky tweets vs England 🤷🏾‍♂️ …. but anyhow the young men will learn 🙏🏾

— Tino95 (@tinobest) October 6, 2018

Not just Tino, but a few Indian cricket fans were also left outraged by Harbhajan’s comments.

If English ex cricketgers had made such comments about our teams the previous tours in 2011 and 2014, how would you have reacted? Disrespectful

— Abhinav Misra (@princeshwar) October 5, 2018

With all due respect… this kind of behaviour is the reason you are sitting here and tweeting instead of playing. Very Disrespectful.

— Kiran Bhat (@ItsBhatOfficial) October 5, 2018

Incase if any Foreign players said like these everyone will accept it…

— Saravana Dhoni (@SaravanaDhoni07) October 5, 2018

Noone should talk like this. That was the point.

— Kiran Bhat (@ItsBhatOfficial) October 5, 2018

As a punjabi, indian I’m ashamed of @harbhajan_singh … Sorry Tino @tinobest and all the people of West Indies…

— Harsh Sidhu (@Gurindersidhu6) October 6, 2018

You cannot mock a team when your own overseas test record is so abymsal. Indians were whitewashed for two consecutive test series in2011.

— Harsh (@tiger13295) October 6, 2018