Bengaluru City Police made an attempt to support Team India during the third T20I match against South Africa with a witty tweet, but it backfired as fans started to criticize them instead.

Taking to Twitter, Bengaluru Police tweeted, “Notice from BCP: We are allowing over speeding on the pitch by our Indian bowlers at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium today, we won’t fine you for sure!”  This comes in the backdrop of the new traffic rules imposed by the center which mean more substantial fines for violating the rules.

One Twitter used wrote: “Obviously we can not overspeed on Bangalore roads.. no surprises”.

“Catch/penalize those overspeeding on roads rather than these tweets. Also tell ur employees not to take mamuli/bribe,” another user replied.

Posting pictures of potholes, another user tweeted: “Yeah how can we? One cannot even drive… leave alone over speed in this city of potholes! Ward 25&26 are dirt tracks come show skills here !!” 

“And are u allowing constables to use foul language too,” another user chided Bengaluru Police.

“Apart from tweeting wits also respond to customer grievances, apart from appreciation tweets this twitter handle ignores everything against Bengaluru Police,” one user complained.

However, some users saw the humor in the post and applauded the police department. ” Excellent sense of humor,” someone tweeted. “Good bouncer,” wrote another user.

Despite the Bengaluru Police’s “permission”, India failed to do much in the match as After winning the toss, the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli decided to bat first citing to test the batting ahead of the T20 World Cup. The decision didn’t come out as per the expectations as the Proteas chased down the meager target of 135 with 19 balls to spare and 9 wickets in hand.  

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The South African team started off the chase of 135 started off well as they were 76 without loss in the first 10 overs with Reeza Hendricks and De Kock going great guns. However, Hardik Pandya came out in the 11th over to dismiss Hendricks owing to a brilliant catch by Kohli. After his dismissal, De Kock (79*) along with Temba Bavuma (27) helped the Proteas to chase down the total quite easily in the 17th over as most of the Indian bowlers were seen struggling

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India will host South Africa in a three-Test series starting from October 2 in Visakhapatnam.