Bharat Army Fire Back at Barmy Army's Dig on Virat Kohli After Joe Root, Ben Stokes Record Ducks

Virat Kohli recorded the first-ever duck of his career in World Cups in 56 innings as he failed to open his account against England in Lucknow. Barmy Army, the official fan group of England’s cricket team took a dig at Virat Kohli sharing a morphed image of the former Indian captain’s face upon a duck.

As fate would have it, Joe Root and Ben Stokes failed to open their accounts as well, and the official fan group of the Indian cricket team, Bharat Army thus hit back at Barmy Army with a classy reply.

Keeping in line with Barmy Army’s post, Bharat Army morphed Root and Stokes’ faces upon a duck coming up with apt replies.

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“Just out for a morning walk,” read the post on X (formerly Twitter) from Barmy Army after Kohli was dismissed by David Willey for a nine-ball duck earlier in the first innings.

India fought their way to a total of 229/9, riding on Rohit Sharma’s 87-run knock while Suryakumar Yadav hit 49 runs in 47 balls. Chasing a target of 230, Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Dawid Malan before getting Joe Root on a duck on the next delivery.

Bharat Army thus came up with a juicy reply.

“Just out for an evening walk,” read the post from the Indian fan page.

Shortly afterwards Mohammed Shami joined the party and got rid of Stokes on a duck, and Jonny Bairstow after which Bharat Army trolled Barmy Army again.

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“Just give us some time to make the edits,” they fired back.

England went from 30/0 to 30/2 and later 39/4 at one stage after which captain Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali tried to steady the ship for England. Kuldeep Yadav got rid of the England skipper on 10 with a beautiful delivery that completely deceived Buttler after turning into the stumps to leave the defending champions shell-shocked at 52/5.