A man in Tamil Nadu killed his friend after a drunken quarrel over who was a better cricketer – Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli.
Quarrell over Virat and Rohit
The two Indian giants Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are the best current cricketers and they both led the team as well. It is not surprising that they have massive fandom and there are times when the fans of these cricketers argue on and off social media about who is better between the two. Such comparisons have always been made.
Back in the day, the same debate used to happen between Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, and Brian Lara, and in the Indian team between Sachin and current head coach Rahul Dravid. However, never did you hear about a fan killing the other over such debates. That is exactly what happened in Tamil Nadu where two fans, one of Virat and the other of Rohit debated and it led to bloodshed.
Friend murders friend
The incident happened in Mallur, where two friends named P Vignesh and Dharmaraj were discussing cricket over drinks near SIDCO Industrial Estate on Tuesday night. The debate got heated and Dharmaraj, the Kohli and RCB fan among the two got angry and attacked Vignesh, a Rohit fan, with a bottle and cricket bat which led to the death of Vignesh. Dharmaraj then fled from the spot of death.
The police said that Vignesh, during the heated conversation, had begun to mock Dharmaraj, even body shaming him for having a speech defect, and compared that with Kohli and RCB’s performances. “During the course of their debate, Vignesh had allegedly mocked RCB and Virat Kohli. Vignesh had the habit of body shaming Dharmaraj, who was a stammerer. On that day he had made some comments comparing the RCB team to the speaking difficulty of Dharmaraj. This outraged Dharmaraj who attacked Vignesh with a bottle and later hit him with a cricket bat on the head. Dharmaraj soon fled the spot,” said the police.
According to Zee News, Vignesh’s body was spotted only in the morning by the workers who were on their way to work at the SIDCO factory. The police had now sent Vignesh’s body to the government hospital in Ariyalur for autopsy and a case has been registered.
Twitter reactions
Twitter was abuzz on Saturday morning with the hashtag ‘#ArrestKohli’ trending since morning, which is a reference to an incident in Tamil Nadu.
How to get rid away from these criminal Kohli fc in our country ! #ArrestKohli pic.twitter.com/q2FD2GthoE
— 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐦. 🦁 (@RofiedAsim) October 15, 2022
Still Kohli Fans Defending that criminal guy
Humanity died today 💔#ArrestKohli— Harshit 🐬 (@its_monk45) October 14, 2022
@imVkohli today your fans has crossed limit. Surrender yourself to police if you still have some shame 🙏#ArrestKohli pic.twitter.com/N4jMfhkTVW
— 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐦. 🦁 (@RofiedAsim) October 14, 2022
#ArrestKohli
All Rohit fans are shameless bcuz .why are you trending this trend huh?
It's not done by kohli himself.know you limits and fck up pic.twitter.com/tbFWoB2nYn— Harshil vasava (@Harshilvasava5) October 15, 2022
He should be arrested on the day itself when he defense the free hit ball 😭 #ArrestKohli pic.twitter.com/Ao9tuOdoao
— 𝗔𝘆𝘂𝘀𝗵 🇮🇳 (@RofiedAyush) October 15, 2022
People making the trend of #ArrestKohli must be jealous of Virat Kohli 's success, #T20WorldCup
"Hagrid" "Hijab"#happybirthdaygautamgambhir #HBYVeerrajuGaru pic.twitter.com/e80Dm7ldgh— Jyoti Singh (@Jyoti789Singh) October 15, 2022
Rohitian,Why can't you do negative trend for #SalmanKhan🐷 who committed billions of crimes,destroyed career of many
You are defaming #ViratKohli𓃵 💔who is pride of India, by doing #ArrestKohli trend just because of an illiterate fan!!
RIP Vignesh bhai 💔
Love from MSDIANS ❤️ pic.twitter.com/E2fNJdcKUi
— SUSHANTXDESTINY (@sushantxdestiny) October 15, 2022
#ArrestKohli for being the greatest Cricketer in the world. pic.twitter.com/q9GzvovK7c
— Veroit Cuhli 🇮🇳 (@ImVcuhli) October 15, 2022
Virat is always abusive and aggressive towards the players.That's what his fans learn from him and his criminal fan literally took an innocent life,& shameless people are making this incident as meme material,Virat should be behind the bar asap.#ArrestKohli #JusticeForVignesh pic.twitter.com/Q6m3IVv1j8
— Jyran⚘ (@Jyran45) October 15, 2022
These guys still have no shame after this inhuman activity. They should deserve to go to jail along with Kohli !
Abusive Idol ! Criminal Fans #ArrestKohli pic.twitter.com/qEScjrfyDm
— 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐦. 🦁 (@RofiedAsim) October 14, 2022
Kohli fans are shame of the society!!#ArrestKohli pic.twitter.com/tpzwyd9j0a
— Kartik (@RohitxGoat) October 14, 2022