Sachin Tendulkar (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)/ Liz Truss
London: Liz Truss, the English Prime Minister who had taken charge of the country’s premiere office recently, resigned from the post on Thursday sending shockwaves in the international political circle.
The news of Truss resigning only 45 days after taking charge also caused an uproar across social media platforms including Twitter where several renowned figures took to the micro-blogging site to express their opinion on the matter.
Journalists, politicians, sportspersons, activists, and others were among the people who voiced their opinions about Truss’ resignation. The trolls nevertheless, also had a field day and within minutes of Truss’ resignation, the internet was flooded with memes and posts mocking the UK’s economy and Truss.
The Barmy Army the official Twitter handle of England Cricket fans also posted a tweet in this regard asking users to describe the current political situation in cricket terms.
Several users came up with creative replies to the tweet and tried to describe the political turmoil in the language of the sport. However, one reply that caught the eye of many and was appreciated by the users was that of an Indian sports journalist Himanshu Pareek.
Himanshu replied to The Barmy Army’s tweet with “Indian team captaincy”, he further posted another tweet adding Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian legend batted more minutes in his career than Liz Truss stayed as Prime Minister of the UK.
He added Tendulkar batter for 70,211 minutes across his career that spanned for over 24 years while Liz Truss stayed PM for only 64,800 minutes.
“Minutes Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar batted in his career-: 70,211 mins Minutes Liz Truss stayed as Prime Minister-: 64,800 mins” (SIC) he added.
The reply was liked by over a thousand people at the time of the posting of this report and it was liked by over a hundred people at the same time, the numbers were comparatively much higher than it was on the other replies.
