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The Indian contingent won two gold medals on day 5 of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham. First came in the women’s fours lawn bowls competition and the table tennis team brought the second glory for the team in the finals. Notably, the weightlifters are leading the medal-run for India in the 22nd edition of the CWG.
The women’s lawn bowls team of India has created history after winning the first-ever medal in the history of the sport at the Commonwealth Games. Earlier, the women’s team was defeated in the semi-final of the women’s lawn bowls competition. Later on, the women in blue went on to defeat South Africa in the finals. Eventually, they became the Commonwealth Games champions in lawn bowls.
Other than the action during the games, Lovely Chaubey of the women’s lawn bowls team has talked about the role of the Indian men’s team’s former captain MS Dhoni in their success. She said that the latter often visits and also knows their coach on some good terms. Another team member Pinki also revealed her conversation with Dhoni.
Although, this credit to the former Indian captain didn’t go well with the critiques of Dhoni and they started criticizing for no reason. Interestingly, Lovely also hails from Dhoni’s hometown Ranchi in Jharkhand.
MS Dhoni sir knows our coach in Ranchi - Lovely Chaubey
“Dhoni sir knows our coach in Ranchi and has come to see us at the greens twice over the years. We have a Dewri Mata temple close by, when he goes there, he comes to see us as well. We had a chat about the sport as well. He said whenever he is in Australia,
After the discussion of Dhoni by CWG champions, the critiques of the 40-year-old went on to Twitter for trolling him about this credit. They also called him a ‘credit stealer’ in every situation.
Although, the maligning of big names like the ex-Indian captain is quite a bit often among social media users to always give rise to any new controversy.
Here’s how Twitter users reacted to all this:
Dhoni's PR is unreal man.. Getting credit from other sports too https://t.co/hGRGiAG79B
— Sejal 🏏 (@sejal_mokal) August 1, 2022
🚨 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙩 #B2022 🚨#TeamIndia's first-ever Commonwealth Games medal in 𝙇𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙨 has been sealed by our women's team of Rupa Rani Tirkey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Lovely Choubey and Pinki Singh 👏🔥
— Team India (@WeAreTeamIndia) August 1, 2022
We will be playing for gold tomorrow 🥇🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/Od2sKjgqZV
Har kuch mein cricket & thala🤦 https://t.co/rHkFkvWFIz
— Prajin (@wcriccrazeprajn) August 1, 2022
Is there potential for fixing in Lawn Bowls??? https://t.co/mt6pzvjeIV
— Gavish Soni (@SoniGavish) August 1, 2022
Yahape bhi credit https://t.co/umVOPAfZ5b
— ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ່࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏ooo (@RahulD616) August 1, 2022
Is me bhi credit le liya 😭😭 https://t.co/QdSuY7QhpP
— Rakesh (@_Centurion_153) August 2, 2022
MS #Dhoni put #Ranchi on the world map but belonging to the same city, India's first ever lawn bowls medallists in #CommonwealthGames have no interest in going global.https://t.co/ApAXSegvCR
— The Quint (@TheQuint) August 2, 2022