{"id":2077,"date":"2021-02-06T22:47:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=92157"},"modified":"2021-02-06T22:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:17:38","slug":"ind-vs-eng-andrew-flintoff-replies-to-amitabh-bachchans-5-year-old-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-eng-andrew-flintoff-replies-to-amitabh-bachchans-5-year-old-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ind vs Eng: Andrew Flintoff replies to Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s 5-year-old tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the second day of the first Test put England on top, off the field too former English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff had the last laugh after he replied to a five-year-old tweet. During the 2016 T20 World Cup Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan took a jibe at Joe Root and tweeted, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cRoot who ? \u091c\u0921\u093c \u0938\u0947 \u0909\u0916\u093e\u0921\u093c \u0926\u0947\u0902\u0917\u0947 Root ko ..!!! (Root who? We will uproot him).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the greatest respect , this aged well \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sjhs7HGT1d\">https:\/\/t.co\/sjhs7HGT1d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Flintoff (@flintoff11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flintoff11\/status\/1357985921468141569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bachchan\u2019s tweet as a response to Flintoff\u2019s tweet where he put Joe Root over Virat Kohli and said Kohli might match Root\u2019s level someday. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt this rate @imVkohli will be as good as @root66 one day ! Not sure who @englandcricket will meet in the final now !\u201d Flintoff tweeted in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flintoff wrote today, \u201cWith the greatest respect, this aged well,\u201d after Root clutched a double-hundred today in his 100th Test match and became the first-ever to do so in the history of Test cricket.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At this rate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> will be as good as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/root66?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@root66<\/a> one day ! Not sure who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@englandcricket<\/a> will meet in the final now !<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Flintoff (@flintoff11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flintoff11\/status\/714143621801447424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the second day of the first Test put England on top, off the field too former English all-rounder Andrew\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":25175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,1426,350],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-amitabh-bachchan","tag-andrew-flintoff","tag-joe-root"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}