Umar Akmal congratulates David Warner for winning ‘PSL 2016’

David Warner led his Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) to their maiden title victory in the 9th edition of IPL on Sunday. SRH beat Royal Challenger Bangalore (RCB) in the final by 8 runs at Bangalore.

After winning the toss and batting first, SRH posted a score of 208 with Warner, Shikhar Dhawan, Yuvraj Singh and Ben Cutting making valuable contributions. RCB had a good start to the chase with 100 runs coming up in 9 overs. But after the dismissal of big guns like Chris Gayle (76), Virat Kohli (54) and AB de Villiers (5), RCB struggled and found themselves 8 runs short of the victory.

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SRH had a tough path to travel to the finals, they had played 3 knockout matches to win the title, beating, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the eliminator, Gujarat Lions (GL) in the second qualifier and the finals against RCB at their home ground. It was no different from the RCB, where Royal Challengers had to win all their last 4 games to qualify for the playoffs.

While the whole world was enjoying the nail-biting final which went all the way down to the final over, Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal took to Twitter after the completion of the match to ‘congratulate’ Warner for the ‘Pakistan Super League’ (PSL) win instead of IPL win.

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Later on, he recognizes the blunder mistake he has done with the replies he got and he promptly changed the tweet:

Congratulations to @davidwarner31 n team well deserving win #ipl2016final

— Umar Akmal (@Umar96Akmal) May 29, 2016

He admitted his mistake and replied to one of the Twitter users and asking him to mind his language.

@itx_omar @davidwarner31 it was by mistake behave ur self

— Umar Akmal (@Umar96Akmal) May 29, 2016

Here is how Twitterati reacted:

Can't even catch what he's watching. #smh https://t.co/0hyTci7NTR

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) May 29, 2016

Man, you had one job…. https://t.co/1OqSHDIRyk

— Manasi (@ThatUnitedLady) May 29, 2016

When you live in denial of the IPL! https://t.co/qJBCO0odX6

— Batman (@MeMumbaiIndian) May 29, 2016

Meanwhile in Pakistan ???#RCBvSRH https://t.co/oZ16kID31B

— Dexter (@MunnaKaTunna) May 29, 2016

.@Umar96Akmal ye Bangkok wala chasma hata kar dekh bhai, 2016 chal raha hai ab ?

— Rofl Gandhi (@RoflGandhi_) May 29, 2016

Congratulations to @davidwarner31 n team well deserving win #ipl2016final

— Umar Akmal (@Umar96Akmal) May 29, 2016

.@Umar96Akmal Bhai,Congratulate kar le par #IPL ko PSL se compare mat kar. @davidwarner31 ki IPL price pure Pakistan ki GDP se jyada hai!?

— Crime Master!! (@BokaPandit) May 29, 2016

High on weed https://t.co/gYr1aOBodI

— S (@DPsDictionary) May 29, 2016

@Umar96Akmal @davidwarner31
3 years old kid also could answer the question of who won last night, the final of IPL2016.

— Anil Shah (@shahanil43629) May 30, 2016

@KajuKatli__ @Umar96Akmal @Marieebiskut @itx_omar @davidwarner31
Still wondering how can he tweet in english

— Prateek Don (@royalmishra420) May 30, 2016