The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) official Twitter handle was in beast mode on the Monday morning after coming under an attack from Pakistan fans. ICC put out a poll on Twitter to ask fans who they thought would contest the Women’s World T20 final. The options given were West Indies vs India, West Indies vs England, Australia vs India and Australia vs England.
However, the Twitter thread was quickly taken over by angry Pakistan fans, who were incensed by ICC’s decision to leave their team out of the reckoning. Even later on, ICC tweeted, “The absolute state of these mentions! 😂Pakistan didn’t get out of the #WT20 group stage guys 🙃”. Here is the tweet:
The absolute state of these mentions! 😂
Pakistan didn't get out of the #WT20 group stage guys 🙃
— ICC (@ICC) November 19, 2018
Pakistan fans took ICC to task for not including their team in the poll and incorrectly pointed to Pakistan’s No.1 ranking.
Naver underestimate @ICC 🇵🇰 champion
— Scorpion_King🦂🦂میں بھی عمران خان ہوں (@shujahatali23) November 19, 2018
Pakistan is number one in t20 ranking but you didn't mention it.
— Shamim Balti (@imalone96) November 19, 2018
Where is #Pakistan…. ?
— Haseeb Khan (@HaseebK39409732) November 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/nayaPakistan201/status/1064361213939855362
https://twitter.com/marwat33/status/1064352896282738688
https://twitter.com/shakeelajmal/status/1064336535976329216
Where is Pakistan. 😔😯😠
— Ghulam Shabeer (@jattak1950) November 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/westtrenduk/status/1064318011023261704
The options given by the ICC were taken from the four teams that have reached the semi-final stage of the ongoing Women’s World T20 2018. Unfortunately for the Pakistan fans, their team never made it out of the group stages. Pakistan fans also wrongly tweeted that their team is ranked No.1 in women’s T20Is. Pakistan actually leading the rankings in men’s T20I cricket but in women’s T20I rankings, the team is standing at the seventh place.
Pakistan had a forgettable outing in the ICC Women’s World T20 being held in the West Indies. They were in Group B alongside Australia, India, New Zealand, and Ireland. Pakistan won just one match — against Ireland but was completely outplayed by the rest of the teams in Group B.
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India was the leader in Group B thanks to a crushing win over the No.1 ranked Australia women’s team. India ended the group stage unbeaten and will now take on England in semi-final 2 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on November 22.
The first semi-final will be contested between defending champions the Windies and Australia. The final of the tournament will be played at Antigua on November 24 (Nov 25 — IST).
