Indians Slammed Barmy Army For Dragging Virat Kohli Unnecessarily: The England cricket team’s supporter group, The Barmy Army, has been their 12th man in every game they play. The Barmy Army was even more raucous at the Edgbaston as The Ashes 2023 got kick-started earlier this week with England’s Bazball-inspired team taking on Pat Cummins’ World Test Champions Australian side.
The Barmy Army also were a bit too loud on social media as they took a dig at Indian superstar cricketer Virat Kohli. They got severely trolled and bullied by the Indian fans on Twitter for their brutal dig at Virat Kohli.
The Barmy Army put out a tweet to hail Moeen Ali‘s sensational ball to dismiss Cameron Green. Ali’s superb delivery had loop, drift, and dip that invited Cameron Green for a front foot shot. Green obliged and lunged forward, but the ball spun large from the surface, went through the bat-pad gap, and crashed into the stumps. It is certainly going to be one of the balls of this Ashes 2023 series.
To make their appreciation for Moeen Ali’s big-spinning delivery that castled Cameron Green, the Barmy Army posted a clip of Moeen Ali dismissing Virat Kohli in a Test Chennai in the 2021 series in a similar way, which left Kohli with a look that said if it was the Ball of the Century.
This troll at Virat Kohli hurt the sentiments of the Indians fans and they hit back at The Barmy Army:
Meanwhile, Moeen Ali has been fined 25 percent of his match fees and handed one demerit point by ICC for their breach of conduct.
On the second day of the Edgbaston Test, Moeen Ali had used a “drying spray” on his hand before coming on to bowl. He didn’t have any prior permission from the umpires of using this drying spray.
The incident occurred during the 89th over of Australia’s first innings at Edgbaston when Moeen Ali was seen applying a drying agent to his bowling hand near the boundary line while fielding.
After reviewing the incident, the ICC said, the Match Referee was satisfied that the cream was applied to the finger only to dry his hands, and not in order to tamper the ball. The cream was not applied as an artificial substance to the ball and consequently, it did not change the condition of the ball, which would have been in breach of clause 41.3 of the ICC playing conditions – Unfair Play – The Match Ball – Changing its Condition.
