Twitter trolls Yuzvendra Chahal for Neymar act

The pitch at Trent Bridge in Nottingham was deemed to be a batsman’s paradise and the first few overs of the match between England and India manifested the same. In the first ten overs, the Brits put on 71 runs and threatened to take the match away from the visiting team. After Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to field first, Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow played their strokes freely.

However, the innings fell away thereafter courtesy of some immaculate pieces of bowling by the wrist spinners, especially Kuldeep Yadav, who picked up a six-wicket haul. Yuzvendra Chahal, the right arm tweaker also played his part and churned out a spell of 10-0-51-1. He bowled 23 dot balls and was able to restrict the batsmen somehow. He also picked up Eoin Morgan’s wicket.

Chahal’s hilarious act

Suresh Raina took a simple catch off his bowling to send back the English captain. Meanwhile, an interesting incident sparked during the match. In one moment, Chahal was seen crouching on the ground with his hands on his knee along with a smile of grimace on his face. The antic seemed similar the one by Brazilian footballer Neymar, who put forth a similar act in the FIFA World Cup in Russia.

During Brazil’s round of 16 match against Mexico, Neymar scored a goal in the 51st minute to take them into the lead. In the dying stages of the match, Neymar tried to tackle Miguel Layun and then the Paris Saint-Germain forward threw himself on the ground and acted as if he had injured his leg. It was considered to be a strategy to waste time and not give their opponents a foothold into the match.

Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell posted the picture of Chahal on Instagram. Twitter also couldn’t hold on to their laughter after seeing the incident and they sarcastically trolled Chahal on his action.

Here is how Twitter reacted

#Neymar #NeymarChallenge by @yuzi_chahal. Good one @Gmaxi_32. 😀 pic.twitter.com/2slgqFf8oH

— Prabhu 🏏 ‏ (@Cricprabhu) July 12, 2018

#ENGvIND
Chahal Rolling like Neymar 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭

— Birthday Girl 🎂 (@The_Priyanka__) July 12, 2018

Neymar of Cricket @yuzi_chahal … 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/a5YrhYKlW3

— Taimoor Zaman (@taimoorze) July 12, 2018

I thought Chahal was doing the Neymar challenge!

— Debodipta Paul (@debodipta_paul) July 12, 2018

Is Neymar = Yuzi Chahal ?? #ENGVIND #ENGvIND

— Cricket Engineer (@CricketEngineer) July 12, 2018

Brilliant! Indian cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal just got hit on the knee and rolled around on the Trent Bridge turf as if he'd been felled by a sniper – or, in fact, was Neymar! Top class piss-taking! @SkyCricket #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/1rk7BGoreJ

— Jon Teckman #FBPE (@Jontwothreefour) July 12, 2018

Yuzvendra Chahal's rolling was reminiscent of #Neymar
Bhai yeh cricket hai,roll karne se kuch nhi milegaa#ENGvsIND

— Perisic B.E.E (@chatpataka100) July 12, 2018

Yuzvendra Chahal just did a #neymarroll #Neymar #YuzvendraChahal #IndiavsEngland #IndiavEngland

— T@nujKh@nn@ (@TeeKayyPBUM) July 12, 2018

Neymar of cricket @yuzi_chahal 😂😂 #EngvInd

— Rakshith B J (@RakshithBJ2) July 12, 2018

"Is it neymar rolling down at trent bridge"?
Commentator,when ball hit @yuzi_chahal's knee😂😂#ENGvsIND

— Saurab pokharel (@pokharel_saurab) July 12, 2018

Don't do it like neymar @yuzi_chahal otherwise people think it's fake #INDvENG

— Dev verma (@dadhi_baba) July 12, 2018

Bumble just compared Chahal to Neymar brilliant!!! @BumbleCricket @yuzi_chahal #NeymarChallenge #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/jQ7wiuDpKG

— Prashanth Soans (@PKSoans) July 12, 2018

Lol Neymar and Chahal in the same WhatsApp group… @BumbleCricket???😂🤣😂#ENGvIND#SSCricket

— Fabian (@Fabianhdw1) July 12, 2018

Chahal obviously been watching the football #Neymar #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/UMMRzr0qsU

— Neil Herring (@nj_herring) July 12, 2018

@cricbuzz ouch! That'll hurt. That roll from Chahal reminded Neymar!

— Sathes Kumar (@Sathes1729) July 12, 2018

Chahal rolled on the ground twice, remembered those Neymar Memes, gets up on his knees immediately. #ENGvIND

— Sanjiv Raman (@imsanjivraman) July 12, 2018

Chahal Paid Tribute To Neymar There 😂😂#ENGvIND #INDvEng #NeymarChallenge #neymarroll

— Saurabh Shinde (@imsgshinde) July 12, 2018

Chahal replacing neymar 😂😂#INDvENG

— யட்சன் (@ManiMaindhan) July 12, 2018

Did #Chahal just do a #Neymar ? 😉 #ENGvsIND @yuzi_chahal #humour

— Mikkhail Vaswani (@MikkhailVaswani) July 12, 2018

After watching so much of Neymar, it's easy to compare Chahal's rolling with him. Except that would have really hurt.#ENGvIND

— Suneer (@suneerchowdhary) July 12, 2018