{"id":5513,"date":"2023-02-22T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=282018"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:24:12","slug":"venkatesh-aakash-twitter-war-goes-ugly-as-venkatesh-prasad-replies-harshly-to-aakash-chopras-video-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/venkatesh-aakash-twitter-war-goes-ugly-as-venkatesh-prasad-replies-harshly-to-aakash-chopras-video-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Venkatesh-Aakash\u2019 twitter war goes ugly as Venkatesh Prasad replies harshly to Aakash Chopra\u2019s video invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter debate over KL Rahul\u2019s spot in the Indian team between former cricketers Venkatesh Prasad and Aakash Chopra has become quite heated. In his 12-minute YouTube video, Aakash questioned Prasad\u2019s motivation for tweeting about Rahul, and the former Indian fast bowler responded by attacking the latter harshly. In retaliation, the former India opener challenged Prasad to a duel on his YouTube channel, <strong>but the latter shot that down with yet another vicious assault.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Venky bhai, msgs are getting lost in translation. You here. Me on YT. I invite you to come on a Video Chat\u2026we can do it Live. Difference on opinions is nice\u2026lets do it properly \ud83d\ude0a<br \/>I\u2019ll not have any sponsors on it & nobody will make money out of it. Up for it? You have my number <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZrAzWoJiTv\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZrAzWoJiTv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketaakash\/status\/1628051410381307905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cVenky bhai, msgs are getting lost in translation. You here. Me on YT. I invite you to come on a Video Chat\u2026we can do it Live. Difference on opinions is nice\u2026lets do it properly. I\u2019ll not have any sponsors on it & nobody will make money out of it. Up for it? You have my number,\u201d Chopra tweeted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday morning, Aakash posted a video on his YouTube channel. In response, Prasad posted a series of six tweets in which he accused the former India batter of creating a \u201cvile video,\u201d calling him a \u201cagenda peddler,\u201d and \u201ccleverly\u201d misquoting\u201d him. Prasad also retrieved Aakash\u2019s 11-year-old tweet about Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane in an effort to support his argument.<strong> The 53-year-old responded to Aakash with a total of six tweets in a thread.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So my friend Aakash Chopra after making a vile video on YouTube this morning where he calls me an agenda peddle,  conveniently and cleverly misquotes me, removes Mayank\u2019s average of 70 at home, wants to gag views which are not in line with what he believes but wanted Rohit out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2HwFLMgvmd\">pic.twitter.com\/2HwFLMgvmd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venkateshprasad\/status\/1628012386140688384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No Aakash, nothing is lost in translation. In your 12 minute video you have called me as an agenda peddler because it didn\u2019t suit your narrative.  <\/p>\n<p>It is crystal clear. And I have made my points very clear in this Twitter thread. Don\u2019t wish to engage with you further on this \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GhlfWI0kHA\">https:\/\/t.co\/GhlfWI0kHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venkateshprasad\/status\/1628065044989906947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo Aakash, nothing is lost in translation. In your 12-minute video, you have called me an agenda peddler because it didn\u2019t suit your narrative. And I have made my points very clear in this Twitter thread. Don\u2019t wish to engage with you further on this,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter debate over KL Rahul\u2019s spot in the Indian team between former cricketers Venkatesh Prasad and Aakash Chopra has\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[605,608],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-aakash-chopra","tag-kl-rahul"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}