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Rohit Sharma Trolled Over Fitness After Vinesh Phogat's Paris Olympics Disqualification. X User Says 'Luckily He Is Not Required To Check His Weight'
Rohit Sharma is being trolled over his fitness after Vinesh Phogat was disqualified from Paris Olympics 2024 for being overweight.
Rohit Sharma is suddently being trolled because of what happenend in Paris Olympics 2024. Even though cricket is still not part of the Olympic Games and will feature in the 2028 Summer Games, fans are trolling India's ODI and Test captain after wrestler Vinesh Phogat was robbed off a medal post being found overweight by 100 grams before her Women's Freestyle Wrestling 50 kg gold medal bout.
Soon after the news shook the sports fans across the country, social media users have started targetting Rohit over his fitness. X user Benedict Kumbakaran bearing the handle @b_kumbakaran wrote, "Luckily, Rohit Sharma is not required to check his weight every day before a cricket match." Another X account with the handle @CrazyVibes_1 said in a post: "Rohit Sharma is playing with overweight for the years and vinesh phogat disqualified for just having 100 gm overweight."
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Take a look at some of the fans trolling Rohit Sharma's fitness here:
Luckily, Rohit Sharma is not required to check his weight every day before a cricket match.#vinesh #OlympicGames
— Benedict Kumbakaran (@b_kumbakaran) August 7, 2024
Rohit Sharma is playing with overweight for the years and vinesh phogat disqualified for just having 100 gm overweight
— Crazy Vibes (@CrazyVibes_1) August 7, 2024
Cricket is okey for Indians. No weight concerns.
— ɪᴛs__ᴅʜᴀʀᴍᴇsʜ (@ITS__DHARMESH) August 7, 2024
Our captain Rohit Sharma play even after being 45 kg overweight and still hits the ball effectively. #SLvIND#Olympic2024 #Phogat_Vinesh pic.twitter.com/Q11Lq0vlTh
Rohit Sharma's Blistering Form In India vs Sri Lanka ODIs
Even as trolls continue to target him over his fitness, Rohit has been in blistering form in a series where runs have been hard to come by. While he scored 58 off 47 in the 1st ODI, he made 64 off 44 in the second.
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However, India could not cross the winning line on both the occasions with the series opener ending in a tie and the visitors succuming to a defeat in the second ODI in Colombo.