Nitesh Kumar Sahoo

England's cricket star and hero of the English team that won the World Cup in 2019, Ben Stokes has become popular in India for a different reason. It is said that Indian skipper Virat Kohli at times uses a cuss word in Hindi that rhymes with Ben Stokes's name.

On Monday, ESPNcricinfo (Twitter handle) shared a photo of the Indian skipper making a phone call. ESPN captioned the image, "If you were on the phone with Virat Kohli, what would you tell him?"

https://twitter.com/ESPNcricinfo/status/1224158061306109952

Stokes tweeted: “Ben Stokes” if you know you know. Stokes’s ‘irritation’ and ‘tiredness’ can be judged easily from his tweet. Within a few hours, his tweet was retweeted over 4500 times and the reply was liked over 22000 times.

https://twitter.com/benstokes38/status/1224237498492125185?s=08

Some cricket fans say Virat being a Delhi ‘munda’ and born to a Punjabi family, using such cuss word is common.

Apart from Ben, who replied to the ESPN tweet, massive number of fans flooded the particular post with hilarious comments, GIFs of Kohli speaking the cuss word and several memes related to it.

https://twitter.com/vishwatweets1/status/1224238182327144448

https://twitter.com/DevanandShenoy/status/1224237827879137281

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