It was a goal fest when Indian cricket stars met the dudes from Bollywood for a ‘Celebrity Clasico’ on 15th October (Sunday). India, as a nation, is crazy about cinema and cricket and the Celebrity Clasico is perfect bend of cricket and Bollywood.
It was a Sunday well spent for the fans as they watched their favourite celebrities from sports and entertainment go at each other in a football game. Celebrity Clasico played B’town’s boys (All Stars FC) against the celebrated sportsmen (All Hearts FC) in a ‘friendly’ match. And the proceeds from the match go to a charity.
However, Indian cricket stars did not take it too friendly as they defeated the Bollywood stars 7-3. In the last year’s game, both celebrities and sports stars ended with the same figure (2-2), but this year, Team India stars completely outplayed the B-town stars.
Here is the list of players in each team that played this year:
All Heart FC squad: Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Rohan Bopanna, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shreyas Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahl, Hardik Pandya, Zaheer Khan, Jasprit Bumrah, S Badrinath, Sreejest P, Pawan Negi, Digvijay Rawat, Anup Sridhar, Anirudh Srikanth, Mangaldas
All Stars FC squad: Abhishek Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra, Leander Paes, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shoojit Sircar, Arjun Kapoor, Dino Morea, Kartik Aaryan, Arman Jain, Shabir Ahluwalia, Nishant Mehra, Sachin Joshi, Jim Sarbh, Vivian DSena, Karan Veer Mehra, Aadar Jain, Vikram Thapa, Rohan Shrestha, Harpreet Baweja, Shashank Khaitan
As the game concluded and Indian cricketers crushed All Stars FC mercilessly, Twitterarti were on fire. Check out some of the best tweets here:
https://twitter.com/RanbirKapoorFC/status/919555124564865024
More Pictures] Ranbir Kapoor on field during football practice yesterday. #CelebrityClasico pic.twitter.com/yMZiDWDzHV
— Ranbir Kapoor Universe (@RanbirKUniverse) October 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/dhonikohli_fc/status/919434255477874688
You’re looking at the most promising football player ever made, and the other one is Cristiano Ronaldo.@msdhoni #CelebrityClasico pic.twitter.com/XBKXoDlUQX
— Naresh Parameswaran ??
(@cliched_moi) October 15, 2017
Next year, Virat Kohli’s All Heart FC should play Arsenal #CelebrityClasico2017
— Chiggy Viggy (@IdlySambhar) October 15, 2017
It is the first time when @msdhoni checked the opening and @imVkohli, the finishing.#CelebrityClasico
— hemant garg (@hemantgarg12) October 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/aashi_kumari/status/919565197118812161
https://twitter.com/dhonikohli_fc/status/919613633893564416
https://twitter.com/RanbirKapoorFC/status/919562315246084096
You can’t see a better picture than this on Internet today ??#Mahi #Ziva#CelebrityClasico pic.twitter.com/BhUD89HyYC
— Whistle Podu Army ® – CSK Fan Club (@CSKFansOfficial) October 15, 2017
This is from #MSDhoni … @msdhoni scored 2 goal #CelebrityClasico #CelebrityClasico2017 @ICC @BCCI @StarFootball @ManUtd @ChennaiIPL #msd pic.twitter.com/LuqPXokbZo
— Nabeel Vellat (@nabeel_vellat) October 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/DHONIism/status/919557401077997573