Twitter Reacts As Bees Attack Halts Sri Lanka-South Africa Match

Animals interrupting a cricket match is nothing new. Over the years, we have seen quite a number of instances when the play had to be stopped due to intervention from animals. Whether it was swarm of flying ants, bees, birds, cats or dogs, quite a number of animals managed to stop the game midway for a brief period. Well, something similar happened in the ongoing game between South Africa and Sri Lanka in Chester-le-Street.

The game was stopped briefly after bees attacked the ground towards the end of Sri Lanka’s innings. The incident took place in the 48th over of the innings bowled by Chris Morris. Right after Morris bowled the fifth ball of the over, a swarm of bees came across the ground. And as soon as the players and officials spotted the bees, they lied down on the ground.

The South African bowlers came to the party to keep Sri Lanka to 203!

Can the Sri Lankans defend this?

Highlights on our #CWC19 app!
APPLE ? https://t.co/VpYh7SIMyP
ANDROID ? https://t.co/cVREQ16w2N pic.twitter.com/S52eynwmTe

— ICC (@ICC) June 28, 2019

Fortunately, the bees soon went away and the game resumed. Twitter, however, soon jumped into action as fans expressed their views over the incident.

Here are some of the reactions: 

Bees two nations have a history!#SLvSA | #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/rEY9T7yhUD

— ICC Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) June 28, 2019

? bees attack warning ⚠️ at #SLvsSA match #Cwc2019 pic.twitter.com/IrxbebO6Ml

— Anjana Kaluarachchi (@Anjana_CT) June 28, 2019

But most importantly, 1992 mein bee attack hua tha?

— absy (@absycric) June 28, 2019

https://twitter.com/msksquash/status/1144594417581461509?fbclid=IwAR01C-ipMAwyI0-JpFzwrc3p5dFPdOo7PBV3nqvvAkErHgq5yj2yIbN6760

Bees two nations have a history!#SLvSA | #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/rEY9T7yhUD

— ICC Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) June 28, 2019

Hilarious Situation:

Bee attack during the #CWC19 match between Sri Lanka and South Africa. ????#SLvSA pic.twitter.com/MZjDf2zkOu

— Cricket Blog (@blogcricket_pk) June 28, 2019

https://twitter.com/AliAsmar45/status/1144596746569486336

Bees in the ground again #SLvSA pic.twitter.com/xoUNkIqV7T

— Uzair Gul (@uzairgul771) June 28, 2019

Bees stopped play at Chester-le-Street in the South Africa versus Sri Lanka match #CWC19 #SLvSA pic.twitter.com/N6pXqTyhRf

— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) June 28, 2019

#SLvSA in a picpic.twitter.com/gxD61mpRvE

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) June 28, 2019

I thought i had seen everything on a ground until i saw the bee attack and all the players lying flat on their belly to escape them #SLvSA

— Alok Baba (@tiwarialok91) June 28, 2019

Bee attack?! pic.twitter.com/igLcCbfa1I

— •JRL (@johnroblawson) June 28, 2019

Mara why do we always have bees attack when the proteas are playing?

We never have it when Bafana/Springbok/Banyana Playing #ProteasFire

— ٰٰ (@musehanezoe) June 28, 2019

Bee Attack was the best thing happened so far in #CWC2019 #SAvsSL

— Taha Mansoor (@tahamansoor27) June 28, 2019

Bee ? attack in Durham..amazing!!! #SLvSA

— Hemant (@hemantbuch) June 28, 2019

Talking about the match, South Africa came up with a fine bowling effort to bowl out Sri Lanka for just 203. Dwaine Pretorius and Chris Morris starred with the ball, picking up two wickets apiece. For Sri Lanka, Avishka Fernando and Kusal Perera top scored for the Islanders with both scoring 30 each.