ICC World Cup 2019: A Tweet From ICC Attracts Flak From Pakistan Fans

Pakistan ended their ICC World Cup 2019 campaign with a win beating Bangladesh by 68 runs on July 5 (Friday) at the Lord’s Cricket Stadium in London. Despite that, Pakistan fell behind New Zealand’s net run-rate and had to bow out of the tournament. The Men in Greens needed to beat Bangladesh by a margin over 300 runs to beat the Kiwis in the net run-rate to make it to the semifinals. ICC mocked Pakistan on social media at the halfway stage as Sarfaraz Ahmed & Co needing to bowl out Bangladesh within seven runs.

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ICC receive flat from Pakistan fans

Batting first, Pakistan banked on Imam-ul-Haq and Babar Azam along with a quickfire knock from Imad Wasim to post 315 runs on the board. Mustafizur Rahman picked a fifer, but the other Bangladeshi bowlers failed to rally behind him as Imad scored quick runs in the death. During the chase, Shakib Al Hasan kept Bangladesh in the hunt, but Shaheen Afridi’s six-wicket haul was enough to hand Pakistan their fifth win of the tournament.

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Meanwhile, during the mid-innings break, ICC tweeted the number of runs within which Pakistan will have to bowl out Bangladesh with a GIF that was a clip from the 1994 Hollywood movie Dumb and Dumber. The film featured Jim Carrey in which the actor’s character is gleefully saying,

“So you’re telling me there’s a chance?”

Pakistan need to keep Bangladesh to 7 or below to qualify for the #CWC19 semi-finals…

Pakistan fans right now:#PAKvBAN | #WeHaveWeWIll pic.twitter.com/KuBVraJXHo

— ICC (@ICC) July 5, 2019

Soon fans started accusing the ICC of trolling the Pakistan cricket team and its supporters. Several fans floated many conspiracy theories against Pakistan. They also accused ICC and the big teams like India, England and Australia to plot to get Pakistan out. Many fans also wrote that some Indian fans were controlling the ICC Twitter account.

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Twitter Reactions

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— Sheikushaitan (@hassan_sayss__) July 5, 2019

ICC is trolling Pakistan, which hints that it was the plan of ICC to exclude Pakistan from the semifinals. ICC is no more neutral. ICC is all about big 3.

— Yasir Iqbal Khan (@YaSiR___kHaN) July 5, 2019

Believe me if there was no rain disturbance the points table would have different positions. Thanks icc for arranging beautiful swimming pools..

— Saleem khan ?? (@iamkhan_11) July 5, 2019

ICC must look into the bunch of 'Indian school kid admins' handling @ICC @cricketworldcup @T20WorldCup accouts. @ICCMediaComms @TheRealPCB @ClaireFurlong14

— Daniel Alexander (@daniel86cricket) July 5, 2019

Shame on You..Your Name shouldnt b #ICC'
It should only be #IndianProCricketCouncil

— Syeda umama zainab ?? ❤?? ❤??❤?? (@umama86) July 5, 2019

Such a shame @ICC, Pak and NZ have equal points, Pak has beaten NZ in league stage yet Pak doesn't qualify and NZ does. Aus qualified for final in 1999 when semi final was tied just because they had beaten SA earlier in the tournament #BANvPAK #CWC19 #SarfarazAhmed

— Shahzad khaliq (@Shahzadkhaliq1) July 5, 2019

Why are u trolling Pakistan? Bunch of kids managing your social media? PK has given a brilliant comeback, and beaten both semifinalists Eng & NZ. Hard luck for us! U should be ashamed at ur level of maturity. You’re the Int’l Ckt Board! @ImranKhanPTI @wasimakramlive @shoaib100mph

— Amina Mujtaba (@aminamujtaba) July 5, 2019

Muslim se koi b imandari se jung ni jeet skta muslim ko baimani dokhe bazi or chal sazi se he shikast di jati h kiyo k in m itna jazba hota h k koi b himt ni rakhta in se takrane ki is liye chal sazi ki jati h

— Tayyab Virk (@tayyabazeemvirk) July 5, 2019

An Indian shouldn't be allowed to satisfy his/her prejudice from ICC official Twitter account.

— Rashid Jaffar (@RashidJaffar) July 5, 2019

is this a genuine #ICC account? if yes, what exactly are you doing trolling? wouldn't it be better for you to rework how you do your WCs? is there any other sport at that level that has rain-washed matches? or the idea of NRR which see NZ go to the semis even as they lose?

— EH (@ejazhaider) July 5, 2019

I am surprised how the entire world is talking about impossibility of Pakistan reaching Semis, even ICC on its official social media accounts is making fun of a Test Nation which has won last Champions Trophy ?.
Strange, very strange.
#PAKvBAN #BanvPak #Pakistan @wasimakramlive

— Muhamad Jawad Shayeq (@Awazeshayeq) July 5, 2019