Courtesy: CSA/X
On Friday, November 8, the national anthem of India went through a technical glitch while the Indian players were singing it ahead of the first T20I of the four-match series against South Africa. The Indian national anthem got paused twice while it was being played at the Kingsmead in Durban, but despite that, the players of Team India sung it on top of their lungs on the live broadcast.
After winning the toss, Aiden Markram, the captain of South Africa, decided to bowl first, and prior to the play being set to begin at the Kingsmead in Durban, the glitch involving the Indian national anthem happened. In the immediate aftermath, the social media has gone abuzz about the matter, with some calling it disrespectful towards India, its citizens, and the players on the field.
Watch the clips of India's national anthem facing technical glitch while being played in South Africa:
Shortly after the Indian national anthem was completed following a couple of pauses, the national anthem of South Africa had no such glitch whatsoever. Following that, the first T20I of the four-match T20I series began on time, and the Indian cricket team reached 56/1 at the close of the power play stage with Sanju Samson and Suryakumar Yadav looking well set.
Here are the playing XIs of South Africa and India for the first T20I at the Kingsmead in Durban:
South Africa: Ryan Rickelton (wk), Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Partrick Kruger, Marco Jansen, Andile Simelane, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Nqabayomzi Peter
India: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Varun Chakravarthy
