As India gears up for the grand finale of the World Test Championship in Southampton in the forthcoming month, the fans have already started speculating about the various upshots that may happen and the twinkling bells and whistles.
Indian cricketing fans were left dangling from a thread after IPL was called off midway due to rising Covid cases and an evident bio-bubble breach. Before things can be brought under control, the situation slipped out of hand, compelling the apex cricket body in the nation to put things under a moratorium.
India, being a cricket-crazy country was deprived of its biggest revelry and all eyes shifted to World Test Championship at once. Not just fans, but analysts and commentators of the sport started taking sly digs that ranged from subtle to blunt. One of those analysts who have upped his meme game by leaps and bounds, Wasim Jaffer, once again grabbed the limelight with this exclusive tweet of his.
Wasim Jaffer and his stinging jabs – a better love story than Twilight
Wasim Jaffer cut a sly dig at fellow English stickler, Richard Kettleborough, whom he wanted out of this glorious equation that would very well decide the crown of the world in the longest format of the sport and also mentioned that he would like Sri Lankan umpire, Kumara Dharmasena to arbitrate the big game.
There is a subtle underlying clue at statistics that may probably be deemed as superstitious at such a high level, however, why would one leave things to contingents when it is a matter of ruling the world.
The reason Jaffer wanted Kettleborough out of this fiesta was because of the fact that every single knock-out game that this man from England has officiated since 2014, India has been drubbed in those affairs.
Dharmasena, on the contrary, will be a sharp reminder of the unfortunate incident of New Zealand being awarded a boundary against them with the ball striking Ben Stokes’ bat in the World Cup finale in 2019.
Twitteratti couldn’t really keep calm at this sublime effort of Jaffer on the internet. He recently struck gold when he took a shot at Pat Cummins, involving the entire Sandpaper gate.
