After the Indian government banned 59 apps with Chinese links, which included the hugely popular TikTok, the veteran Indian spinner, Ravichandran Ashwin took a dig at the Australian opener, David Warner has managed to earn immense number of followers on the video app during the enforced lockdown due to the coronavirus. 

Retweeting a news article regarding the announcement of the ban, Ashwin on Monday tagged Warner and wrote “Appo Anwar?”, a famous dialogue from the 1995 Rajinikanth movie ‘Baashha’, which translates to “what are you going to do now?” However, he later clarified while responding to another Twitter user that it was light-hearted banter and he still has immense respect for the Australian batsman. 

Appo Anwar? @davidwarner31 😉 https://t.co/5slRjpmAIs

— Ashwin (During Covid 19)🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) June 29, 2020

“You were not raised properly,” wrote one user in response to his tweet.

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Replying to the user, Ashwin wrote “It’s a light-hearted banter in Tamil. Can be so easily missed due to context and language barrier. I appreciate you being a @davidwarner31 fan, my respect for him is still intact.”

It’s a light hearted banter in Tamil. Can be so easily missed due to context and language barrier. I appreciate you being a @davidwarner31 fan, my respect for him is still intact. Tc

— Ashwin (During Covid 19)🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) June 30, 2020

The Indian government has to ban the apps because of the rising tension with China following the June 15 clashes at Ladakh in which 20 Indian soldiers died in action and more than 70 were injured.

David Warner became a regular on TikTok during the lockdown, uploading funky videos quite frequently. Soon after that he became a sensation of the platform with his early videos, where he and his daughter can be seen dancing to a popular dance number “Sheila ki Jawaani”.

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Many of his videos have based on Indian songs, be it him dancing to Bollywood songs or lip-syncing dialogues from the hit movie ‘Baahubali’. He had also uploaded videos where he along with his family reacted to entertaining videos of Indian TikTok users.