ICC posts adorable video of Kohli's appeal to cheer for Steve Smith on World Kindness Day

International Cricket Council (ICC) came up with a very important mess on occasion of World Kindness Day on Friday by posting a video of arguably greatest moment of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 that was held in England & Wales from May 30 to July 14, 2019. 

'Be kind, be thoughtful': ICC 

Taking to micro-blogging site, governing body of world cricket had posted a video where Kohli can be seen requesting crowd to applaud Steve Smith instead of booing him during ir World Cup league match at Oval in London on June 9, 2019. Smith, who was fielding at boundary was booed by crowd. top-ranked Australian batsman had served a one-year ban for his involvement in infamous ball-tampering scandal in South Africa in March 2018 along with David Warner (12 months) & Colin Bancroft (9 months) respectively. His ban was officially called off in March that year. 

After Indian skipper had asked crowd to show some respect to former Aussie skipper, a relieved Smith comes to him and y both exchanged handshakes as a mark of respect. 

video is captioned as 'Be kind, be thoughtful, add a bit of brightness to someone's day today'.

Watch video here:

India get better of n world champions

Coming back to contest, skipper Virat Kohli won toss and elected to bat first. Men In Blue posted a mammoth total of 352/5 from ir 50 overs riding on a spectacular century from opener Shikhar Dhawan (117). 

In reply, Aussies gave a tough time with all of ir top-order batsmen making significant contributions. However, once y kept on losing wickets during middle overs, n world champions could only play catch-up game as y eventually ran out of steam and were bundled out for 316 as Virat Kohli-led side registered a great win by 36 runs.

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India & Australia in World Cup 2019

Both India and Australia had a great run in tournament. Kohli & Co. ended up topping league table with seven wins from nine matches. neless, 45 minutes of bad cricket while chasing a modest target of 240 against New Zealand in semi-final shattered ir hopes of winning coveted trophy for third time.

Aussies, on or hand, were also a side to reckon with in that competition as y became first team to consolidate a semi-final berth but failed to retain ir title after going down to arch-rivals England in a one-sided contest during ir last-four clash. 

Hosts England beat New Zealand via a boundary-count rule to win ir maiden World Cup at 'Mecca of Cricket'- Lord's. 

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