Published 12:07 IST, November 19th 2019
IPL 2020: Ben Stokes' new book fuels yet another RR-SRH Twitter banter for fans to enjoy
Six months before the IPL 2020 kicks off, the Rajasthan Royals and the Sunrisers Hyderabad warmed themselves up by bantering over Ben Stokes' book on Twitter.
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English all-rounder Ben Stokes, who was recently retained by Rajasthan Royals for IPL 2020, has released a memoir that talks about England's World Cup win and following summer where y played an electrifying Ashes series. In book, Stokes has also talked about how along with or Australians, David Warner kept sledging Stokes as he went on to make history and rescued Englishmen from an impossible situation at Headingley. Stokes' IPL team, Rajasthan Royals hyped up book and also taunted Sunrisers Hyderabad to buy a copy as well. David Warner is an integral part of Sunrisers, having led m to an IPL victory in 2016. And that is how tweet war began.
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Tweet War
Sunrisers were quick to hit back and tweeted this in reply...
Sneakily taunting Royals about Warner's impeccable IPL record, Sunrisers asked m to gift book to Aussie when he has ar breathtaking season of IPL. Royals were quick to reply.
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Rajasthan's reply teased Sunrisers on how David Warner's IPL may t go as planned if Stuart Broad ends up playing it. Broad was a nightmare to Warner in this year's Ashes series, dismissing him seven times in ten innings that he played. Warner was only able to score 95 runs in entire Ashes series. Sunrisers were quick to hit back and teased Royals about return of Stuart Broad's ultimate nemesis - man who hit him for six sixes in an over.
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Royals were quick to fact-check Sunrisers and let m kw that latter's former player, Yuvraj Singh has officially retired from international and IPL cricket in an indirect, witty way. banter ended sportingly with Sunrisers wishing to continue same level of exchanges on field as well.
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11:35 IST, November 19th 2019