Virat Kohli brutally trolled for uploading the photo of Poonam Raut instead of Mithali Raj

The Indian Women’s team went down, against a strong Australian team with the Southern Stars duo of Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry scoring the winning runs for the team. Earlier in the day, India’s skipper Mithali Raj set the record for most runs in  Women’s ODIs surpassing England’s Charlotte Edwards‘ tally of 5992 ODI runs.

The former English skipper was the highest run-scorer in the history of the game, with 5992 runs in 191 innings. Raj, on the other hand, reached to the record score in 183 matches, with a superb average of 51.66 while her high score is 114* for the Indian team. The record for most number of wickets in Women’s cricket is also held by an Indian; the veteran pace bowler Jhulan Goswami, has taken 189 wickets in her illustrious career.

There were wishes from all corners pouring in for the Indian super skipper, with cricketers such as Ajinkya Rahane and Gautam Gambhir being one of the earliest wishes for Mithali. VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Vikram Chandra, Isa Guha, Lisa Sthalekar and many others lauded her efforts during India’s first innings against Australia.

Indian Men’s team skipper Virat Kohli after posting a tweet, also took to Facebook to wish the fellow skipper only to be brutally trolled by the keyboard warriors. The image uploaded on his page to congratulate her on the record was that of Poonam Raut and not Mithali.

It was one of the most embarrassing moments for the Indian skipper after the Facebook comments flooded pointing out the mistake probably committed by his social media team. Twitteratis’ and Facebook users made sure that the mistake would be rectified and acting up on it the post was removed minutes later.

Here is the compilation of some of the hilarious tweets that followed Kohli’s Facebook post:

Virat Kohli doesn't know Mithali Raj- the women's cricket team captain. Women cricket teams go unnoticed in our cricket-obsessed societies. https://t.co/Y3tbqAq6YT

— Ammara Ahmad (@ammarawrites) July 13, 2017

@NewsX Being in the same profession it was not expected that Kohli will do this goof-up … but yes mistakes do happen

— Ashutosh Shukla (@Ashutoshs12) July 13, 2017

Virat Kohli Mistakenly Puts Punam Raut's Photo While Congratulating Mithali Raj .Thank god he did not post Anushka sharma's pic..Anu 6000?

— faxFakts (@Feroz531) July 13, 2017

poor kohli, it seems he was concentrating somewhere else … but it happens, he should be more careful next time when congratulating somone

— Shiv Keerat Singh (@ShivKeerat) July 13, 2017

@imVkohli posts Punam photo to congratulate @M_Raj03
This is how you screw up self when you fingering in others business.

— I'mGanesh (@Me_TARTLE) July 13, 2017

Murray burns a reporter for forgetting the William sisters while Kohli thinks Punam Raut is Mithali Raj. Loving this day already!

— Abhinav Sinha (@abhinavs88) July 13, 2017

Media barking because Kohli by mistake posted a wrong picture. Women empowerment happening too ?

— Sushant (@Sushant196) July 13, 2017

Please note that a very rich man V Kohli BCCI Capt. does have a PR office to handle social media, hence the mistake is done by clerk in Q.

— vijay rajagopal (@Vijayraj26Vijay) July 13, 2017