Dale Steyn apologizes to Virat Kohli on Twitter and everyone wondering the reason

Tanish Chachra | 14/08/2019
Dale Steyn apologizes to Virat Kohli on Twitter and everyone wondering the reason

Dale Steyn apologizes to Virat Kohli and billion of Indians after being not selected for India’s tour but left everyone wondering for the reason.

South African contingent is coming to India for a championship tour to play three T20Is and three Tests. The Proteas have announced the squad for the tour and kept Faf Du Plessis and Dale Steyn out of the squad.

Although, Steyn has already taken retirement from the test format but was available for the T20 matches, but the South African board decided to keep the bowler out of the contingent.

Quinton de Kock has been announced as the captain of the visiting South African team. Meanwhile, taking a dig at the selectors Dale posted some tweets on his social media handle and apologised to Indian skipper Virat Kohli, but fans have no idea about it.

After the announcement of South African team, Steyn revealed that he was available for the Indian tour. To which, South Africa’s executive coach Neil Manthorp replied that selectors are saving him for the big game.

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After this apology, Twitter was left wondering why Steyn was apologizing to Kohli, and left everyone confused after his without context tweet.

However, prior tweets made by Steyn decode the purpose of his tweet, as it means that the South African board don’t think that a T20I is not a big game.

The series between India and South Africa will start from 15th of September and the first match will be a T20 game scheduled to be hosted at Dharamshala ground.

With this, it will be the first series between both the nations for the first time after the end of Cricket World Cup. In which, both the nations were left disappointed after failing to lift the cup in England. On the other hand, BCCI is yet to announce the Indian squad for the same series.

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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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