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Published 16:13 IST, March 20th 2020

Sunil Chhetri confident about beating Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi at carrom

Sunil Chhetri feels that he could beat Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo while playing the board game Carrom assuming the duo are really bad at the game.

Reported by: Arnold Dsouza
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India captain Sunil Chhetri has claimed that he could beat Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi at carrom. Sunil Chhetri was asked about any sport that he could better either Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi at in a Q&A session on Twitter. The session took an interesting turn when a fan asked Sunil Chhetri about the two global superstars of the game amid the coronavirus lockdown.

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In the Q&A section, Superpower Football shot an intriguing question of 'Excluding football, what would you beat Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi at'?. Sunil Chhetri responded with a GIF of a man playing carrom and captioned the reply by assuming the duo of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are worse for wear at the board game. "I'm strictly assuming they're really bad at this. I think I could beat both of them at it."

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Updated 16:13 IST, March 20th 2020

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