Twitter Reacts as Umpires call for lunch with just 2 runs to win for India

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When the Indian cricket team were just 2 runs away from taking a 2-0 lead in the series against South Africa, the umpires decided to take the lunch break even when the players from both the team requested for an extra over. Indian fans lashed out by tweeting their opinions about the incident.

Brief Scores: South Africa 118 (JP Duminy 25, Khaya Zondo 25; Yuzvendra Chahal 5/22, Kuldeep Yadav 3/20) lost to India 119/1 ( Shikhar Dhawan 51, Virat Kohli 46; Kagiso Rabada 1/24) by 9 wickets.

Here are tweets from the game:



Virat Kohli announcing the changes for today's game! 



Fun fact!

Few balls into the game and this happened!

Everyone knows who is the winner of this contest! cool

Always!

Carbon copy!

Usual suspects doing the damage yet again!

Live scenes of Ashwin and Jadeja watching the match!

David Miller's innings in a nutshell!

Damn you Kuldeep! :(

South Africa's lesson for the day!

Rohit Sharma: The synonym for consistency! :P

How ridiculous is this!



Scenes if this had happened! :P

The South African team during the lunch break...

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