The fifth T20 match between India and South Africa was called off due to rain in Bengaluru on Sunday. Only 3.3 overs were bowled in the match and in that period, India managed to post 28/2 with both Ishan Kishan and Ruturaj Gaikwad. However, more than the cricketing action, it was an incident involving Gaikwad that made headlines, and left netizens furious.
The incident took place during the rain break when Gaikwad was sitting in the dugout.
A video of the groundsman trying to take a selfie with the batsman has gone viral. Just then Gaikwad was seen asking the groundsman to keep his distance and then he looked the other way.
Very bad and insulting gesture by Ruturaj Gaikwad. Sad to see these groundsmen treated like this pic.twitter.com/Qj6YoXIPUa
— akshat (@ReignOfVirat) June 19, 2022
The act did not impress Twitter and many took to the platform to call it “outrageous”.
Very bad and insulting gesture by Ruturaj Gaikwad. Sad to see these groundsmen treated like this #Ruturaj Gaikwad pic.twitter.com/jIXWvUdqIX
— Arnav (@imarnav_904) June 19, 2022
Those defending Rituraj Gaikwad must understand that groundmen are also safe from COVID.
Clearly Rituraj doesn’t deserve to play at the highest level. Shameful.
— Sir Dinda²⁶⁴ (@ReallyDinda) June 19, 2022
Ruturaj Gaikwad insulting the groundsman. This arrogance and attitude is very bad man. Learn to respect people first.
And there is no bio bubble in this series.
pic.twitter.com/yux4fGq26a— Vicky Shinde (@iamshinde83) June 19, 2022
Ruturaj Gaikwad showing his attitude while taking selfie with ‘Groundsman’, no one can treat everyone equally like Rohit Sharma #INDvSA #IndvsSa pic.twitter.com/Y2IEDsJShj
, Ctrl C + Ctrl memes 45 (@Ctrlmemes_) June 19, 2022
Worst behavior Ruturaj Gaikwad. They are unsung heroes and it is very disgraceful to treat them like this. https://t.co/rxaNZoYuWe
— FOXER @ (@FOXER_Offl) June 19, 2022
India vs South Africa?????????
Match no. 5
Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Match delayed due to rainAfter all, why is Ruturaj Gaikwad behaving like this with the ground staff? Arrogance is being made towards him just for a selfie. This kind of behavior is really unacceptable in the gentlemen’s game. pic.twitter.com/A1sjqnMQu7
— Jeet Singh (@jeet_singh070) June 19, 2022
In the fifth and final T20I, Gaikwad managed just 10 runs in the fourth over of the innings before going back to the pavilion. Lungi Ngidi dismisses the batsman.
In the entire series, Gaikwad scored just one fifty and it came during the third T20I in Visakhapatnam.
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The right-handed batsman scored 96 runs in five matches, with 57 coming in the third T20I.
India’s next match will be against Ireland in the two-match T20I series starting June 26.
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