Matt Parkinson’s old tweets criticizing Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni go viral

Dixit Bhargav | 07/02/2020
Matt Parkinson's old tweets criticizing Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni go viral

Matt Parkinson’s old tweets: The English spinner’s old tweets against the Indian players have gone viral across social media platforms.

England spinner Matt Parkinson has come under the scanner for his old tweets which see him heavily criticizing India captain Virat Kohli, former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and domestic cricket in India.

Screenshots of the severe criticism from a verified account with username “@mattyparky96” have gone viral since yesterday.

It is worth mentioning that the account doesn’t exist on social media platform Twitter anymore. Furthermore, there isn’t any new verified Twitter account of the English leg-spinner who made his ODI debut against South Africa in the first ODI of the ongoing England’s tour of South Africa.

Matt Parkinson’s old tweets

From expressing his “hate” towards Kohli to calling both him and Dhoni as “disgraces” to questioning India’s domestic structure which allowed all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja to score three triple centuries, Parkinson appeared to have disliked the Indian cricketers in the past. The tweets are dated back to years 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Matt Parkinson's old tweets criticizing Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni go viral

 

Matt Parkinson's old tweets criticizing Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni go viral

 

With the account no longer existing, not much can be speculated regarding the authenticity of the same. As far as the Indian fans are concerned, they haven’t particularly liked the tweets for obvious reasons. Read some of the tweets from fans on the same below:

Parkinson, 23, had made his T20I debut during the tour of New Zealand in November last year. Representing Lancashire in the last season of the Vitality T20 Blast, Parkinson dismissing 21 batsmen in 12 T20s at an average of 14.61, an economy rate of 7.48 and a strike rate of 11.7 played a vital role in him making a national debut.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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