Twitter reacts as Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli refuse to walk off after nicking the ball

05/01/2018

Even though Royal Challengers won the game against Mumbai Indians at home, the talk of the town was Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma not walking away even after nicking the ball. The fans were evidently not happy with the actions of their idols and quite expectantly took it out Twitter.

Brief scores : Royal Challengers Bangalore 167/7 (Manan Vohra 45, Brendon McCullum 37; Hardik Pandya 3/28, Jasprit Bumrah 1/22) beats Mumbai Indians 153-7 (Hardik Pandya 50, Krunal Pandya 23; Tim Southee 2/25, Mohammed Siraj 2/28) by 14 runs.

What a start to the match!

Over mid on for 4

Over mid off for 6

Over mid wicket for 4

Over the cover for 6

Wonderful striking from Manan Vohra!
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) May 1, 2018

When you have a small ground...

And that's the 100th six at Bengaluru this season.

47 - by @RCBTweets

17 - by CSK

14 - by RR

10 - by DD

6 - by KXIP/KKR

Go #RCB #ReinventYourGame and get some more of those biggies tonight!#RCBvMI
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) May 1, 2018

But it wasn't the same for De Kock!

Parthiv in next game then? he can provide better starts than de Kock.#RCBvMI
— Nikhil Mane 🏏🇦🇺 (@nikhiltait) May 1, 2018

Rohit Sharma the gentleman!

Fantastic gesture by @ImRo45 to immediately signal to the umpires that he was unsure if he had taken the catch cleanly. #RCBvMI #IPL2018
— Raghu (@raghunath_m) May 1, 2018

What Rohit did 👏👏👏👏

he could have just said it's out but he appealed for third umpire

Gentlemen's Game after all#RCBvMI #IPL2018
— Soumya | ZERO™ (@itsSoumyaN) May 1, 2018

Seriously!

Virat Kohli has sent Brendon McCullum to face Mayank Markande. Seriously 😑😑😑😑😑 .. why u doing this type of decision #RCBvMI
— Ayashkant R A C E 3 CSK 💛 (@being_Ayashkant) May 1, 2018

Then came in Bmac!

McCullum into his zone now! Looking confident.#RCBvMI
— Nikhil Mane 🏏🇦🇺 (@nikhiltait) May 1, 2018

Extraordinary stuff: 13 off one legal ball!Extraordinary stuff: 13 off one legal ball! pic.twitter.com/ZzgY3XwHnJ
— srijith (@srijithcfc) May 1, 2018

And then Virat Kohli did this!

With all due respect to @imVkohli, he should start walking off if he nicks the ball. Such is his brand in cricket right now. He used to do this before a lot as well. But this is a gentlemen game. All the fans will be hurt if their inspiration does something like this! #RCBvMI
— sharat (@sherry1111111) May 1, 2018

Sunil Gavaskar and his commentary! -_-

@imVkohli nicks, restains himself from looking back. Sunil Gavaskar calls it smart.

Someone else does it, the pundit world go crazy calling it cheating.

Why such hypocrisy? #RCBvMI #IPL2018
— SOUVIK DAS (@IAM_SVK) May 1, 2018

Gavaskar~ Whenever a batsman nicks, he looks behind the stumps.

Hearing this for maybe 1001th time.#RCBvMI #IPL18
— Ritesh Surana (@SuranaRitesh) May 1, 2018

Rohit Sharma's batting in a nutshell!

Rohit Sharma is so fast that he enters the ground while Ishan Kishan leaving the crease, comes back and sits at pavilion even before Ishan Kishan reaches the pavilion.

Ishan Shocks. Rohit Rocks.#RCBvMI
— SocialSaint (@isocialsaint) May 1, 2018

After knicking ball, Rohit Sharma, just like his Indian team captain, didn't walk!

#RCBvMI

Indian Captain Virat Kohli and Vice Captain Rohit Sharma.

Both displayed poor sportsmanship.

This cannot be a sign of Idols dor youngters
— Top In Business (@TIBSocial) May 1, 2018

Virat nicked. Umpire didn't give. Bumrah & Rohit/MI didn't review.

Rohit nicked. Umpire didn't give. Umesh and Virat/RCB review.

Both cases batsman stood ground. DRS was available. Smarter one took the decision to review. #RCBvMI
— Prabhu 🏏 ‏ (@Cricprabhu) May 1, 2018

And it was under pressure!

What a 18th over by Southee like wow what an over that 6/6 wow hats off good captaincy Virat very good #RCBvMI
— #Rosewoodian# Awaiting ❤️ (@bebo_pearly) May 1, 2018

Siraj joins the party!

Virat Kohli has much trust on M Siraj, that's why he is not dropping him in any match, and Siraj is giving him exactly what virat wants from him.

Absolutely brilliant in death overs. #VIVOIPL #RCBvMI
— StrokeOGenius (@thedrunkhulk) May 1, 2018

Indeed!