Royal Challengers Bangalore trolled over congratulatory tweet to NASA for finding Vikram Lander debris
Royal Challengers Bangalore took to social media to congratulate NASA for finding Vikram lander on the lunar surface and came up with a special request that irked cricket fans.
In Short
- RCB congratulated NASA for spotting Vikram lander on the lunar surface
- RCB trolled over special request to NASA
- Fans took a jibe at the franchise, asking it to better its social media game
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are facing backlash even as the new Indian Premier League (IPL) season is 5 months away.
RCB took to social media to tweet to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday, congratulating them for their efforts towards helping find Vikram, the lander deployed in India's Chandrayaan-2 mission that hard landed earlier this year.
NASA said on Tuesday that it successfully found the debris of Vikram lander on the lunar surface with the help of inputs from a Chennai-based techie Shanmuga Subramniam.
RCB made a special request to NASA after the congratulatory message.
"Congratulations @isro. Watching #Chandrayan2 take off was a fantastic sight! P.S. We have a special request for you, on behalf of our batsmen," RCB wrote on Twitter.
"Could the #NASA team that found #VikramLander also help us find the cricket balls hit by ABD & Virat," the franchise wrote.
Unimpressed by the remark RCB made on social media, fans, including some of the franchise's own, took jibes, asking them to up their social media game.
From asking RCB to first find their IPL trophy to find better bowlers at the upcoming auction, here are some of the reactions to RCB's tweet.
More than finding balls hit by virat and abd Rcb needs nasa help to find out how to win matches ?????? Anti National GDP (@GodFather987654) December 3, 2019
@RCBTweets change this admin for god sake??
Even loosing finals isn't as bad as this?? RevanthBK (@bk_revanth) December 3, 2019
But I can find RCB at the Bottom of the table mostly Neeraj Yadav (@iamneeraj2510) December 3, 2019
pic.twitter.com/zdJIPfxDmx The Joker (@Joker122018) December 3, 2019
Find a decent bowler with help of them too Yashasvi?? (@girlwithwingss) December 3, 2019
We should find our Maiden Trophy first?? Mr.RcBae (@MrRcbae) December 3, 2019
You need someone to help you find a way to win IPL cup. AKJ (@i_m_akj) December 3, 2019
Royal Challengers Bangalore will resume their quest for their maiden IPL title in the upcoming 13th season. Former New Zealand coach Mike Hesson was appointed as the Director of Cricket while former Australia batsman Simon Katich was roped in as head coach.
RCB parted ways with former coach Gary Kirsten and assistant coach Asish Nehra after another unimpressive season in 2019 wherein they managed just 5 wins in 14 matches.