India vs England 2021: England men’s cricketers take offence to woman cricketer Alexandra Hartley’s joke about Ahmedabad defeat

India vs England 2021: England men’s cricketers take offence to woman cricketer Alexandra Hartley’s joke about Ahmedabad defeat
Alexandra Hartley in news for her recent tweet

After the English team slumped to a defeat within two days against India in the third test in Ahmedabad, certain members of the side haven’t taken a tweet by women’s cricketer Alexandra Hartley in good spirits but have responded sharply. The English women’s team is currently playing against New Zealand and Hartley took to Twitter to advertise the same.

“Nice of the England boys to get this test match finished just before England Women play tonight,” she said, with the clapping emojis, before adding “Catch them on @btsportcricket.”

The tweet wasn’t taken to kindly by Rory Burns who wrote, “Very disappointing attitude considering all the boys do to support the Women’s game.” However, after finding the humorous angle of Hartley’s tweet, Burns deleted his tweet subsequently. James Anderson and Ben Stokes had also liked the tweet before it was taken down. Hartley then wrote, “Think it’s been taken the wrong way/out of context. No offence was meant. We are all test match fans.”

Ben Duckett was also unimpressed with Hartley’s message and is yet to take down his post, branding it an “average tweet” while adding “don’t think any of the men’s team would be ‘clapping emojis’ if the women lost.”

Ex England Cricketers tweeted after 3rd test loss

Former England cricketers such as Nasser Hussain, Sir Geoffrey Boycott, Mike Atherton and few others tweeted after England’s loss to India in 3rd test match.

Hussain tweeted, “There has been a lot of chat about the pitch and rightly so ..but the bottom line is that England found themselves 73-2 having won an important toss and were bowled out for 112 !! That’s where the game was lost . My thoughts”..

Sir Geoffrey Boycott tweeted, “There is nothing in the rules that says what type of pitch should be prepared. We had first choice of the surface and they were better than us. Simple.”

Mike Atherton tweeted, “Report on a crazy day of cricket in ⁦@thetimes⁩. FWIW I thought the pitch was very challenging but not unplayable and England should have got more than 112 on first innings which would have given them a sniff”.

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