“The new Indian Cricket flag”: When Michael Vaughan tweeted picture of a White flag to draw the ire of Indian fans

Gurpreet Singh | 03/03/2022
"The new Indian Cricket flag": When Michael Vaughan tweeted picture of a White flag to draw the ire of Indian fans

Michael Vaughan tweeted picture of a White flag to take a dig at the Indian team after series loss against England in the year 2014.

Former England batter and skipper Michael Vaughan has been and continues to be quite a popular name on social media, mostly due to his propensity to take subtle digs at teams and players every now and then.

His innocuous banter with former Indian opening batter Wasim Jaffer has become a topic for meme fest amongst their fans on the microblogging site Twitter.

However, there are certain instances when the 47-year-old decided to take it too far, inviting outrage, justified or otherwise, along with criticism and anger of his followers.

One such tweet of his, back in 2014, became a huge talking point amongst the Indian fans, when he posted a White flag, to take a dig at the Indian Test team after their humiliating loss against England at ‘The Oval’.

Michael Vaughan tweeted picture of a White flag

India lost the fifth and final Test match against England at ‘The Oval’ Cricket Ground by an innings and 244 runs to lose the five-match Test series 1-3. MS Dhoni’s men were skittled out for mere 94 in the second innings to mark an end to what was a poor series with both bat and the ball.

Someone like a Michael Vaughan was no way brushing the magnanimity of the event under the carpet, as he took to his social media handle to post the picture of a White flag bearing the caption-“The new Indian Cricket flag”, to depict the team’s surrender before the English bowlers.

What followed next was unabated hateful, abusive, and unambiguous words of denunciation for Vaughan in the comments section.

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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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