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‘Jonny Bairstow’s Burmese Army’ trolls Virat Kohli, starts war against India Army on Twitter

July 6, 2022
Bharat Times English News

England beat Ben Stokes on Tuesday India Rescheduled 5. Inth Test at Edgbaston by 7 wickets to level the 5-match series 2-2. The pair of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow scored an unbeaten century, helping the team chase down a record target of 378 runs. On the other hand, this year was India’s third consecutive defeat on foreign soil. Amazingly, they failed to defend the target on all three occasions after a tremendous performance in the third innings with the bat.

While the coveted Pataudi Trophy was shared between India and England, their respective fan groups – the Bharat Army and the Burmese Army – had a heated exchange of words on Twitter. The English fan group is known for its scathing comments on the opposition. This time he focused mainly on the verbal dispute between Bairstow and Virat Kohli To take shots at the visitors. In fact, he changed the name of his handle to ‘Jonny Bairstow’s Barmy Army’.

The Burmese Army shared a picture of a disappointed Kohli after Bairstow scored his second century in the game. He used a laughing emoji to caption the picture.

In another tweet, he shared a video in which members of the Indian Army can be seen singing, “England gets battered everywhere”. The English fan group shared it with the caption, “Imagine singing and losing this whole game”.

Later, he shared a picture from the third day when the joke between Kohli and Bairstow hit the headlines for the second time in the game, while the caption of the post was completely sarcastic.

Bairstow has scored more runs in the last 25 days than Kohli in the last 18 months, he wrote.

Meanwhile, the India Army also retaliated with some tweets to slam their rivals in England. Indian fan group shared the picture World Test Championship points table to highlight that England are in the bottom half; New Zealand and Bangladesh are followed by third-last.

This is the fourth consecutive successful chase for England, after completing difficult fourth-innings targets of 278, 299 and 296 against New Zealand in the previous series. For India, the humiliation was not being able to defend their highest fourth-innings target.

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