BCCI makes a Twitter blunder ahead of the 4th ODI

The penultimate One-Day International of the five-match series between India and Australia got underway at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. The toss was important as the wicket here tends to slow down as the game progresses and it has been raining in the last couple of days in Bangalore so batting second could be an advantage as well.

Host skipper Virat Kohli spun the coin, which just went flat up in the air and landed with the heads face up as Australian captain Steve Smith called it right. He decided to bat first and Virat said he’d have liked to do that as well. As is a norm now the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted the toss update on their Twitter handle for the 5.3million odd followers.

But instead of the 4th ODI, the caption read- ‘1st Twenty20. Australia won the toss and elect to bat’. Twitterati was surprised with this and a few even saw the funnier side of it. Someone asked if the players were also told that it’s a T20I otherwise they will play with the 50-over mindset.

Here are some of the tweets:

Team India made three changes in the playing XI, bringing in Axar Patel for the chinaman Kuldeep Yadav and also rested both the pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah as Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami find a place in the XI. Australia, on the other hand, dropped Glenn Maxwell to bring back Matthew Wade while Adam Zampa took the field for Ashton Agar who has been ruled out of the series with a finger injury.

Playing XI–

India: Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (C), Hardik Pandya, Kedar Jadhav, Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (wk), Axar Patel, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal

Australia: David Warner, Aaron Finch, Steven Smith (C), Travis Head, Marcus Stoinis, Peter Handscomb, Matthew Wade (wk), Pat Cummins, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa