Ben Stokes came out with a witty tweet regarding Virat Kohli's use of the north Indian curse word that rhymes with his name.
Virat Kohli is someone who never shies away from showing his emotions on the field. Among other things, the Indian captain is rather found of expressing his feeling with north Indian curse word. The curse word, incidently, rhymes with the name of England allrounder Ben Stokes. This has resulted in several memes and jokes on social media.
Stokes finally had his say on this on Sunday. The England cricketer came out with a witty tweet regarding Virat Kohli's use of the north Indian curse word and said he was rather tired of the jokes about this. He went on to threaten to delete his Twitter account to escape this.
1. Ben Stokes' banter at Virat Kohli
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While Virat Kohli was busy captaining his team against Pakistan in a World Cup match at Manchester, Stokes tweeted about how he is tired of being mentioned in tweets which suggest that Kohli actually pronounces the English all-rounder’s name every time he is celebrating on the pitch.
The 28-year-old also said that it used to be funny but it is not anymore.
"I may delete Twitter just so I don't have to see another tweet reading "He's saying Ben Stokes"(when he's clearly not)in reply to a video of Virat saying you know what it was funny the first 100,000 times," Stokes tweeted.
I may delete Twitter just so I don’t have to see another tweet reading “He’s saying Ben Stokes”(when he’s clearly not)in reply to a video of Virat saying you know what it was funny the first 100,000 times.
— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) June 16, 2019
2. Virat Kohli says Ben Stokes!
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Many fans on Twitter have made a joke that Virat Kohli says 'Ben Stokes' when he gets excited during a match. Several tweets on the same theme have doing the round on social media for a while now.
“I feel so proud when india takes a wicket because each time they take a wicket, Virat Kohli takes my name. You can find that out by reading his lips” - Ben Stokes pic.twitter.com/0a9uoe2yKc
— Jaaved Jaaferi (@jaavedjaaferi) June 12, 2019
QUEEN to KOHLI:
— DieHardCricketFans (@diehardcricfans) May 30, 2019
"Why do you keep Chanting English player "BEN STOKE'S name everytime?" @imVkohli @benstokes38 #ViratKohli #QueenElizabeth pic.twitter.com/pmikFKG0il
3. Fans respond with Kohli saying 'Ben Stokes' GIFs
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Ben Stokes' tweet caught the attention of Twitter and went viral. Many users responded with more GIFs of Virat Kohli celebrating while saying 'Ben Stokes'.
"Ben Stokes " pic.twitter.com/ZkAZqoTmwg
— Kinshuk Pal (@kroos1729) June 16, 2019
BEN STOKES!! #INDvsPAK #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/VukXZkraT2
— Sai Krishna (@krishh728) June 16, 2019
Ben Stokes be like pic.twitter.com/Z6Md4wzq9p
— Pseudo Pandit (@pseudo_pandit) June 16, 2019
4. Ben Stokes vs Virat Kohli on June 30
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Ben Stokes and Virat Kohli will be facing off when India take on hosts England in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 on June 30, Sunday. While World No.1 England are considered the favourites for this World Cup, India have been performing storngly so far. England have lost to Pakistan in the tournament while unbeaten India beat Pakistan by 89 runs on June 16.
