Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam, captains of the Indian Men’s and Pakistan Men’s cricket team respectively, pose for the T20 World Cup 2022 official photoshoot.
ICC (International Cricket Council) organized a mega press conference including the captains of all the 16 teams featuring in the worldwide tournament of T20 Men’s World Cup 2022 on Saturday, October 15.
All the captains of the sixteen teams have had group photos together as well as photos with the captains of the rival teams. India and Pakistan rivalry is the greatest rivalry in International Cricket and fans have also made this rivalry to a great level.
The photos were then shared on the official Instagram handle of ICC (with the caption written, Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam, with an emoji of holding hands).
Schedule of the T20 World Cup
Eight teams out of sixteen teams had made their spot in the Super 12 stage of the tournament. The remaining 8 teams will be competing for the 4 spots to make it to the Super 12 stage.
The tournament consists of two phases following the first phase in which the spots will be filled by the remaining teams. The second phase will begin as the Super 12 stage.
The first phase will begin on Sunday. It is like every year’s ritual for the T20 WC to hold a press conference inviting all the captains of the teams competing for the title.
Rohit and Babar’s photos lit up the internet
As soon as the photos were shared on the official pages of ICC and T20 World Cup, netizens’ reactions couldn’t be ignored, as they were too catchy. The whole internet surfaced with memes and one-liners describing the photos.
Rohit is leading the Indian team for the T20 World Cup for the first time after Kohli stepped down from the captaincy of the Indian Cricket Team. There were several controversies regarding the captaincy, however, there is a sort of misunderstanding among the players regarding that.
Rohit and Virat share a great bond on and off the field.
Heading over to the reactions of netizens, some of them were very hilarious in their ways. One user shared the pictures of Rohit and Babar, captioning it a “pre-wedding shoot of Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam”.
Another website (MensXP) has also shared Virat and Anushka’s goofy picture laughing together in each other’s arms, which completely resonates with Babar and Rohit’s picture together.
Both were seen laughing in the pictures, indicating that they were enjoying the photoshoot. One user also associated the picture with a still from the “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge ” movie captioning it as “same”.
Both were interviewed as it was a press conference. Rohit and Babar added their comments on the India – Pakistan rivalry. Rohit said, there is always a lot to hear about the rivalry but there’s no point in doing that. He said that whenever they meet, they only talk about each other’s well-being and families.
Babar mentioned that the match with India has always been a high-intensity game. He said that they try to play good cricket and give their best on the field.
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