England vs India 2018, 1st Test: Fans Slam ICC for Mocking Virat Kohli Over Mic-Drop Celebration

Team India cricket fans slammed International Cricket Council (ICC) for teasing Indian skipper Virat Kohli over mic-drop celebration after England won the Edgbaston Test by 31 runs. Many believe ongoing England vs India Test series would offer plenty of surprises.

Meanwhile, England rode on Ben Stokes’ four-wicket haul to lead the five-match series 1-0. Needing 84 runs to win on day four, India lost back-to-back wickets as the momentum shift towards England.

The onus was on Kohli, who after scoring a brilliant 149 in the first innings, once again looked in ominous touch.

However, a brilliant incoming delivery from Stokes undid all the hard work as Kohli departed for 51 runs. Hardik Pandya along with Ishant Sharma offered some resistance, but two brilliant deliveries from leg-spinner Adil Rashid and Stokes finished off the proceedings.

However, the incident took place on day one of the first Test after a moment of brilliance from Kohli got Joe Root run out. Ecstatic with joy, Kohli made the gesture of a mic-drop while celebrating the prized scalp of his counterpart.

Previously, Root had made the same gesture at the end of the ODI series last month that England won after trailing 0-1.

Kohli’s act in Birmingham was a payback of sort although English opener Keaton Jennings felt it was “cool”.

England Vs India: ICC mocks at Virat Kohli over Mic-Drop celebration:

The cricketing governing body, ICC posted a picture of the two captains taking a dig at the Indian skipper Virat Kohli.

“Root out” the captioned the picture.

Root out

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?#ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/ftm9vgHnsD

— ICC (@ICC) August 4, 2018

Meanwhile, it did not go well with the Indian fans who lashed out at ICC for making fun of themselves.

Moreover, Kohli spoke to match referee Jeff Crowe which escalated the speculations that it is regarding the mic-drop saga.

Root himself was not complaining against Kohli’s gesture and thought it adds spectacle to Test cricket.

“I actually think it adds to the whole spectacle of Test cricket, it gives a bit of humour to it, and it makes for a very entertaining series for something like that to happen so early on, so we’ll see how things pan out over the course of the five test matches,” Root told Sky Sports on Thursday.

England Vs India 2018: Here are some of the trolls for ICC after mocking Virat Kohli over mic-drop gesture:

https://twitter.com/ViratKo41183179/status/1025748371829448704

@Twitter @TwitterIndia @TwitterSafety @TwitterSupport this is a troll account. This doesn't represent International Cricket.

— kak (@lavnasuur) August 4, 2018

@ICC I would call it a foolish post. BCCI didn't post anything stupid when India defeated England in T20.

Personally I would like to shove this mike in your ***.

We whitewashed you here in India and hopefully @imVkohli would be able to defeat you in remaining matches.

Cheers!

— ? Kumar?Abhishek ? (@krabhishek1984) August 4, 2018

Actually it was Kohli vs England.
Vijay and Rahane are painful ?

— Amit John (@amitzjohn) August 4, 2018

Kholi is king

— Rishabh Sharma (@Rishabh48327584) August 5, 2018

shame being a governing body, you must show maturity in your activity! lets see next match, you scratched Lion, sure will hear it roar 🙂

— Starpoints Hotel (@Starpointshotel) August 5, 2018

It's a just a first match.. don't wry icc.. soon england will be ROOT OUT in this test series and in the world cup as well which England is hosting.. but this was cheap troll frm u….

— $hreem Tiwari (@subhashini_shri) August 4, 2018

In poor taste ……that too coming from ICC

— Sanjay Saxena (@sunjay_saxena) August 4, 2018