Dean Jones gets trolled for disparaging Virat Kohli’s 31st ton

The former Australian cricketer Dean Jones has been trolled by the Indian fans for belittling the century from the Indian skipper Virat Kohli. The commentator who is also the interim coach of Afghanistan now praised the in-form batsman but also was witty in his tweet on social media which made the fans furious. Naturally, there was a reaction from them and they trolled Jones reminding him that the Australians couldn’t play spin, as well as the Kiwis, did.

Virat Kohli led from the front for the hosts on Sunday after opting to bat first and helped the team post a competitive total of 280. He brought up his record 31st century in the ODI format and scored 121 runs off just 125 balls with 9 fours and a couple of sixes. The knock seemed to be a match-winning but Tom Latham and Ross Taylor batted exceptionally well riding on all the odds stacked against them.

The duo played the wrist spinners with a plan and kept them sweeping after coming together at a rather worrying position of 80/3. They made sure there were no further hiccups in the tall chase and added a record 200 runs for the fourth wicket. While Latham brought up an excellent ton off just 95 balls, Ross was dismissed with only single run required on 95. Eventually, New Zealand won the game by six wickets and now lead the 3-match series by 1-0.

What did Jones tweet?

Professor Dean Jones praised Kohli for smashing a hundred on social media website Twitter but didn’t forget to underrate New Zealand. Interestingly, the Indian skipper went past Jones himself to become the fastest batsman to score 1000 runs against the Kiwis in the format. He posted, “Well played @imVkohli !! But then again .. it’s only New Zealand!” However, the fans took this opportunity to troll him back after the match and reminded him that the Kiwis played spin much better than the Aussies.

Here’s the tweet of Dean Jones:

Well played @imVkohli !! But then again .. it’s only New Zealand! ?
???@scottbstyris https://t.co/8Oy8D2uSna

— Dean Jones (@ProfDeano) October 22, 2017

Here’s how he got trolled:

NZ is much better team than Aus? Professor?

— Jolly Good Fellow (@get_sgk) October 22, 2017

Stronger opposition than Aussies ?

— Sandesh (@sandesh048) October 22, 2017

Aussies should learn from New Zealand batsmen how to tackle spinners. Excellent batting

— Ali Irfan (@alilillah) October 22, 2017

But they won whereas the Aussies were walloped @scottbstyris well done New Zealand the most well planned team to visit India and plays fair

— Kunal Kaveesh Joshi (@funky_kunal) October 22, 2017

You should be ashamed of yourself bcoz you are taking a dig on the best batsman in the world. ????

— reshmi (@reshmi_me1) October 23, 2017

'only New Zealand' just swept us away big time Deano

— Vishal Vardhan (@vishal_vardhan) October 22, 2017

Aussie can learn how to play spin from new Zealand team ?? what happened to your team arrogance shattered ?

— Moin Khan (@moinkhan786995) October 23, 2017

It's only nz but we were smarter then the Aussies who tried to slog everything that doesn't work in sc strike rotation key n we got result

— Steven Rowe (@StevenRowe5) October 23, 2017