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Anti-Modi Indians vote for Imran Khan in ICC Twitter ballot to make Virat Kohli lose

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On Tuesday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) ran a ballot to resolve who’s the perfect cricketer as a captain. The intention of the ballot by the ICC was to hunt the opinion of the general public concerning the best participant as captain.
The ICC, by means of a sequence of tweets, put out infographics explaining how averages of gamers improved after these gamers grew to become captain of their respective sides. The ICC ballot included three legendary gamers and a Pakistani cricketer within the ballot. The three legends included within the ballot have been Indian cricket crew skipper Virat Kohli, South Africa captain AB de Villiers, Australia girls’s cricket crew skipper Meg Lanning. Pakistan’s former captain and present Prime Minister Imran Khan was additionally included within the ballot by the ICC.
Captaincy proved a blessing for some extraordinary cricketers 🧢🏏Their averages improved as leaders 📈You resolve which of those ‘pacesetters’ have been the perfect amongst these geniuses! pic.twitter.com/yWEp4WgMun— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2021
As a day progressed, Indian cricket captain was handsomely successful the ballot with an enormous margin over the opposite three gamers. With Virat Kohli persevering with to obtain rather a lot many votes, the Pakistani institution received triggered resulting in their utilization of its low cost trick of using huge state-sponsored social media teams to affect the ballot. Soon, votes began to pour in favour of former Pakistan captain Imran Khan.
However, on Wednesday, after over 5,00,000 votes forged, the ballot went in the direction of a nail-biting end between Virat Kohli and Imran Khan. In the top, with the huge backing by the Pakistani state and its media’s nationwide marketing campaign, surprisingly only for a Twitter ballot, former Pakistan captain took a slender chief to emerge victorious within the ICC ballot. 
ICC ballot
In the ballot, Virat Kohli had 46.2 per cent of the vote whereas Imran Khan obtained 47.3 p.c of the entire 5,36,346 votes. Meanwhile, AB de Villiers obtained solely seven p.c of the vote whereas Australian girls’s crew captian Meg Lanning sadly obtained just one p.c.
Islamists, anti-Modi Indian trolls voted in favour of Imran Khan
Shockingly, not simply Pakistani Twitter accounts and bots managed by the Inter-Services Public Relations, the propaganda arm of the Pakistan Armed forces, a number of Indians additionally voted in favour of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan within the Twitter ballot.
One person Syeda Uzma mentioned that she was maybe responsible of blending sports activities with politics and went on to say that she voted for Imran Khan due to his efforts in establishing the most cancers hospital and likewise for making certain security of minorities in his nation.
Indian Muslims supporting Pakistan PM Imran Khan in a Twitter ballot
Another Indian social media person Waseem Siddiqui highlighted that though Virat Kohli was approach forward within the ballot but when one considers sportsmanship and management, former Pakistan captain Imran Khan was going to win the race. Siddiqui mentioned it isn’t about nation however about who do you suppose deserves it.
Waseem Siddiqui on the ballot
Shockingly, Anti-Modi troll community ‘Team Bann’ that’s collectively run by Aam Aadmi Party IT cell and Congress social gathering trolls reminiscent of Twitter person @ROFLGandhi_, additionally joined in help of the Pakistani counterparts in favour of former Pakistani captain Imran Khan.
The ‘Team Baan’, which indulges in mass rigging of Twitter polls with the assistance of bots and infrequently resort to posting abusive rants on social media towards Hindus and BJP supporters, unsurprisingly campaigned on behalf of Imran Khan and voted for Pakistan Prime Minister Khan within the Twitter ballot ran by the ICC.
Here is the picture of ‘Team Baan’ supporting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as a substitute of Indian Cricket captain Virat Kohli.

Another member of Team Baan additionally voted in favour of Imran Khan within the ICC ballot.

Addition to Indian accounts favouring Pakistan PM Imran Khan within the Twitter ballot, Pakistan used its state energy to affect the Twitter ballot in favour of its chief Imran Khan.
Pakistan media runs a nationwide marketing campaign in favour of Imran Khan
Pakistan media ran a information to affect the Twitter ballot in order that former Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan, who’s now the Prime Minister of the nation, didn’t lose within the ballot towards Indian cricket crew captain Virat Kohli. Pakistani bots and social media customers, who maybe do not know how voting in actual life looks like, enthusiastically voted on a Twitter ballot like by no means earlier than.
It appeared just like the  Inter-Services Public Relations, the propaganda arm of the Pakistan Armed forces, didn’t need their Prime Minister to humiliatingly lose to Indian but once more and organized for some votes on Twitter to be sure that he wins the Twitter ballot a minimum of. To add this, the Pakistan media too jumped into the scene to run a nationwide marketing campaign only for a Twitter ballot in favour of Imran Khan.
Pakistan media influencing a Twitter ballot by reporting on it.
Despite all of the rigging and bot accounts, the Pakistan captain solely managed to win the Twitter ballot by a slender margin of over 1 per cent of votes. However, a number of Indian, of their hatred for Modi, too joined Pakistanis to be sure that an Indian by no means received the ballot, as a substitute Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan emerged victorious within the Twitter ballot.