IPL 2022: Rajasthan Royals Twitter Account Hacked, Yuzi Chahal Named New 'Captain'

RR Twitter Hacked: Eventually, the account was restored and the admin even posted a message informing the fans to ignore the messages and tweets from the account.

Image: Twitter/@rajasthanroyals

IPL 2022: The official Twitter account of Rajasthan Royals (RR) had to post a tweet informing the fans that their account was hacked for a brief while. RR urged everyone to ignore the DMs and tweets. 

While the Twitter account was hacked, many hilarious tweets were posted, especially about Yuzvendra Chahal. One tweet even declared the leg-spinner as the new captain of Rajasthan Royals. With IPL just two weeks away, this Twitter account fiasco kept a lot of fans interested. 

The tweet about Yuzi Chahal becoming the new captain of Rajasthan Royals was trending on the micro-blogging site. 

Take a look at some of the tweets that were made after the account was hacked:

10000 Retweets and He will open with @josbuttler uncle 🤣😍 pic.twitter.com/2gjr1GxdWK

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) March 16, 2022

Meet RR new captain @yuzi_chahal 🎉 🎉 pic.twitter.com/ygpXQnK9Cv

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) March 16, 2022

Iss baar Bach Gaye admin 😂 logging out now #pangamatlena #hallabol 💗💗 pic.twitter.com/kgmP2LYebB

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) March 16, 2022

Eventually, the account was restored and the admin even posted a message informing the fans to ignore the messages and tweets from the account.

Account was hacked, ignore all tweets and DMs 🙄 pic.twitter.com/VTZsn7B35P

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) March 16, 2022

Squad List

Rajasthan Royals (RR): Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler (R), Yashasvi Jaiswal (R), R Ashwin, Trent Boult, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Riyan Parag, KC Cariappa, Navdeep Saini, Obed McCoy, Arunay Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubham Garhwal, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie Van Der Dussen, Daryl Mitchell.