Ben Stokes drops witty reply on social media to pick on India’s skipper Virat Kohli

Ben Stokes drops a witty response on social media to joke on Virat Kohli’s Hindi abuses, which the Indian captain screams out in rage.

Virat Kohli is known for his aggression and high spirited behaviour on the pitch, after breaking into the team, Kohli was criticized and attracted jokes on his alleged abusive slurs on the pitch whenever he felt rage on the pitch.

Kohli might have toned down his aggression on the pitch, but nobody forgets his notorious past including English International Ben Stokes, who recently picked on Kohli on the social media.

In a tweet by ESPN Cricinfo, they posted a picture of Virat Kohli talking on the phone and asked, “If you were on the phone with Virat Kohli, what would you tell him?”

If you were on the phone with Virat Kohli, what would you tell him? pic.twitter.com/IKJfe82rpX

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) February 3, 2020

To which, out of nowhere, Stokes retweeted the tweet and captioned his own name “Ben Stokes” and also added “If you know, you know,” which has caused a laughing riot in his reply section.

https://twitter.com/benstokes38/status/1224237498492125185?s=20

Apparently, a joke on Stokes got highly viral, when Indians pointed out the similar lip movement between “Ben Stokes” and “B***nchod”, which is apparently was the most frequent slur used by the Indian skipper.

Obviously, Stokes was aware of this bizarre similarity between the two things and gave him the right opportunity to pick on his counterpart in front of all the fans.

Foreign players getting familiar to Hindi abuses is now getting the limelight, as recently, Martin Guptill was caught on mic calling Yuzvendra Chahal a “g**du”.

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This incident also got viral on social media, as nobody expected Guptill to troll the Indian spinner in this fashion. Meanwhile, Kohli is yet to make a response to it but if he does, the joke might escalate further, which will eventually entertain the fans following them.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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