Twitter reacts to South Africa taking a 1-0 lead against India

01/08/2018

After some great work from the bowlers, yet again, restricting SA to a sub-par score of 130 in the second innings, Indian batsman crumbled under pressure once again scoring just 5 more runs than their opponents. The Twitterati were in no mood to let the collapse slide and came out in numbers.

Brief scores : South Africa 286 (AB de Villiers 65, Faf du Plessis 62; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-87) & 130 (AB de Villiers 35, Aiden Markram 34; Mohammad Shami 3/28, Jasprit Bumrah 3/39) beat India 209 (Hardik Pandya 93; Kagiso Rabada 3-34, Vernon Philander 3-33) & 135 (R Ashwin 37, Virat Kohli 28; Vernon Philander 6/42, Morne Morkel 2/39) by 72 runs.

Here are the best tweets from the day's action :

Team India you listening???

Hello ... Indians .😂😂😂😂😂

World’s best team ? 😂😂

Best batting line up ?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #SAvsIND
— Harsh Raj (@hkb395) January 8, 2018

Take a bow, South Africa

No Dale Steyn, rain affected play, a meagre lead of 200, and yet SA have managed to bring India to its knees. Now that’s a world class team! #INDvSA #SAvsIND
— Harsh Raj (@hkb395) January 8, 2018

And we thought Team India learned something

#IndvsSA #SAvsInd Rip those who thought India had a chance of beating SA even after watching dharamshala ODI
— Aditya Dangi (@Adi_dangi) January 8, 2018

Sooo True..

If Dale Steyn had bowled perhaps the Indian team would've been in hotel by now. #SAvsIND #INDvSA
— Krishna K Gowda (@Kris_Gowda) January 8, 2018

Dhoni fans right now

Nd they said MSD's captaincy was not good in overseas👊 #SAvsIND
— ABHI😎 (@aabhi96) January 8, 2018

Team India right now

#TeamIndia chasing SA's 'modest' total#SAvIND #INDvSA pic.twitter.com/BQMBofsFI2
— AV (@AimlessAvian) January 8, 2018

And this advice straight from Wasseypur

Ghar aaja pardesi tera desh bulaye re.. #INDvSA.. Bhaiya tumse na ho payega😂
— Nimesh Anand (@nimeshanand) January 8, 2018

Please take note of this Team India

South Africans after seeing performance of Indian team #IndvSA pic.twitter.com/LXlgPJ7me7
— Professor (@BeerOholic) January 8, 2018

When world no.1 Test team travels South Africa

After a tremendous betting performance by india 😂😂😂, now Indian hypocrites are even saying that indian bowling is good😣😣😣😴😴🤐🤐#INDvSA
— Muhammad Qasim (@Muhammad_0308) January 8, 2018

And we thought this is the best batting line-up in the world right now

Famed Indian Batting line up failed to live upto its reputation. Or it has lived to its reputation. #INDvSA @cricketaakash @bhogleharsha @imVkohli @ImRo45
— 🇮🇳 महेश मिरजकर (@M_Mirajkar) January 8, 2018

And he is not Joking

Wickets are falling faster than the temperature in north India. #INDvSA
— Kshitiz Bhardwaj (@ImmaJoking) January 8, 2018

The only legend who can save us

#INDvSA #varunsir

Only batsman now who can save #TeamIndia. pic.twitter.com/W5p4A8gPZR
— Tarun Hasija (Jonty) (@tarunhasija) January 8, 2018

Well, no comments on this

So what is our great coach Ravi Shastri thinking with his great assistants Bharat Arun and Sanjay Bangar?#INDvSA
— Chirag (@chirag_rachchh) January 8, 2018

Different stories, same result

Bowlers gave us the game back , batsmen gave it back to SA on a silver plate . Pathetic is least to say#INDvSA
— Saradhi (@SaradhiTweets) January 8, 2018

Being this wise, with that name, WOW!!!

When India loses a match-

Virat Kohli fans say- Why blame only kohli even Dhawan,Rohit & Pandya didn't score runs.

Rohit fans say- Why blame only Rohit even kohli didn't score runs.

MORAL of the story- Lets blame Ravi Shastri.#INDvSA #SAvIND #SAvsInd #Kohli #Padmavat
— Khooni (@KhooniBhai) January 8, 2018

Indian cricket fans right now...

@yatharth10 Sab khatam ho gaya Bhagat, sab khatam ho gaya. Yaar apne batsman gaddari kar gaye, ab kaun vishwas karega hamara? #SAvsIND #INDvSA #FreedomSeries pic.twitter.com/FLAUBT9R0I
— Pawan Singh (@pawan_s26) January 8, 2018

MOM proved his point