'Redemption' - Twitter trolls Bangladesh as Sri Lankan players come up with 'Naagin Dance' post victory

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh rivalry traces us back to 2018 when the two teams clashed in the Nidahas Trophy. The Bangladesh players went over the board to celebrate their victory over Sri Lanka with the 'Naagin' dance or the snake dance. It went viral and people were not happy with the attitude of Bangladesh players.

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Bangladesh then went on to face India in the finals of the trophy and eventually lost the match. The video of the final over heroics from Dinesh Karthik that was uploaded by the cricket board of Sri Laka is still getting immense views. The match saw a huge uproar from the Sri Lankan fans who took it to the streets to celebrate India's victory.

After almost 1400 days, Sri Lanka had the perfect opportunity to avenge Bangladesh for its incivility back in 2018. The Sri Lankan boys clinched the win against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup 2022 and thrashed them out of the ongoing Asia Cup. Post their victory, a few Sri Lankan players celebrated the win with the 'Naagin Dance'.

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The 2018 Nidahas Trophy was not the only reason behind the rivalry. Before the match, the Sri Lankan captain opined that the Bangladesh team has only two world-class bowlers. This did not go well with the Bangladesh coach Khaled Mahmud who took on the skipper and said that the Sri Lankan team does not even have a world-class bowler.

The war of words further ignited the fire and forced former Sri Lanka veteran Mahela Jayawardena to come up with a tweet motivating the Sri Lankan team. Post victory, he lauded the team for the victory and rated it "world-class" in what was an indirect dig at Khaled Mahmud.

Well done guys!!! Fantastic fight back to win this game under pressure.. safe to say it was a world class performance 👏👏👊 @OfficialSLC #AsiaCup2022

— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) September 1, 2022

The Sri Lankan players replied with the bat as they chased the target of 184 runs and made it to the next round of the tournament. A few players then came up with the 'Naagin Dance' and put an end to the chaos.

Let's take a look at some of the tweets that users came up with after witnessing the same:

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2018 - Nagin Celebration by Bangladesh after knocking out Sri Lanka from Nidahas Trophy.

2022 - Nagin Celebration by Chamika Karunaratne after knocking Bangladesh out of Asia Cup. pic.twitter.com/Po7yhyeAb5

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) September 1, 2022

Naagins ☕ 🤣 😂😂

— KiRAN (@Duggavati_kiran) September 1, 2022

Greatest rivalry in world cricket

— ' (@_melancholyyyy_) September 1, 2022

🤣 that was straight out of the box celebration

— Supernova 😸 (@_lessthanzero__) September 1, 2022

Ashes2.0

— Jija ji (@BatayengeNa) September 1, 2022

Redemption. 🫡

— MCKTweets🇮🇳 (@Manav30210909) September 1, 2022

Karma hits back hard.

— Ansh Shah (@asmemesss) September 1, 2022

Even better rivalry than Zimbabwe vs Pakistan

— :-) (@saffron_agent8) September 1, 2022

The best thing about time is that it changes ✨

— Akash patel (@Akashpatel233) September 1, 2022

Perfect revenge taken 🔥🔥👌

— Sarthak Uppal (@SarthakUppal3) September 1, 2022

Bangladesh deserve this

— 𝐒wastik 𝐏rasoon (@SwastikPrasoon) September 1, 2022