After former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh threw a challenge at his former teammates Harbhajan Singh and some other players, the India off-spinner finished the ‘Keep it Up’ challenge but opted to pick the easier way. With cricketing activities have come to a halt due to coronavirus, cricketers have been taking to social media and to post various challenges and simultaneously also send across the message to stay indoors to combat the spread of the virus.
After out-of-favour India spinner Harbhajan posted a video of himself juggling a ball on his bat, Yuvraj did not step back from pulling his “childhood buddy” leg.
When Yuvraj had nominated his teammates for the challenge, he claimed that Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma will succeed in completing the challenge, but had some doubts regarding Harbhajan. The latter had accepted the Keep It Up challenge and asked Yuvraj not to take him lightly.
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Harbhajan further nominated former India skipper Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, and Shikhar Dhawan for the challenge. “Thankyou Yuvi promise to be at home till the time it is required to be,” Bhajji said in the video posted on his official Instagram page.
Currently, India is going through a nationwide lockdown. Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive patients in India went past 8600 with almost 2760 people losing their lives on Saturday, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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Almost the entire is in a lockdown due to the scare of the ever-escalating situation concerning the World Health Organisation-recognized pandemic that is the Coronavirus. Everything- schools, colleges, airports, railway stations, gyms, sporting events, movies, offices- have been put under lockdown as the world continues to self-isolate in order to control the pandemic.
