The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the schedule for the T20 World Cup 2024 on Friday, January 05. Meanwhile, the marquee clash between India and Pakistan will be held in New York on June 09 during the 2024 edition of the event. On the same lines, Star Sports, the official broadcaster for the tournament, was on the receiving end of controversies following the poster announcement for the fixture between the arch rivals.
Notably, Star Sports used Hardik Pandya and Shaheen Shah Afridi’s pictures for announcing the hyped clash. However, Indian fans showed massive criticism to the broadcaster for not using mainstay skipper Rohit Sharma’s picture in the official poster.
Here’s how netizens reacted to the poster:
Hardik pandya in poster, no Rohit. Schedule is announced and we didn’t know that who is going to be captain of India??
— Kirkett (@bhaskar_sanu08) January 5, 2024
You guys are spreading hate between Indians.. people should boycott Star sports..
— Satya Prakash (@Satya_Prakash08) January 5, 2024
Why Hardik Pandya in the poster ? How do you know that he will be the captain??
— Lalatendu Rout (@Littu85) January 5, 2024
How come you have shown pic of @hardik as Captain when officially @ImRo45 is still India’s T20 Captain.This is not correct,@BCCI.@HashTagCricket @AMP86793444 @CricCrazyJohns
— Narayan Mahadevan (@tmnarayan) January 5, 2024
Hardik is not the skipper. Rohit is a skipper, put his pic. Hardik will never play for India again
— Dr Ajay Kulkarni (@drkulkarniajay) January 5, 2024
Has Hardik officially become the captain of Indian T20 Team?
— Naveed Talks (@naveed_talks) January 5, 2024