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As a great man once said, sport isn't about revenge. It's about respect & pride. Star Sports have often forgotten this, which has led to some unforgotten second hand embarrassment for Indian cricket fans.
Here's a thread of those campaigns/promos
1. 2012: #AaneDo for home series vs Pakistan. Ind lose ODI series 2-1
2. 2015: #WeWontGiveItBack. Dhoni had even said 'the cup doesn't belong to us. We took it from someone and someone else will take it from us.
3. 2015: Calling Bangladesh 'Bacha' (A kid) before the series.
Result: Bangladesh beat India for the first time in an ODI series.

4. 2019 Ind Aus series: Showed Aussie players to be pissing at the prospect of facing India. The most disgraceful promo ever I have seen. Result, Aus beat India 3-2 in ODIs and 2-0 in T20Is.
5. 2019 WC: #CrownCricketKa. Indian fan mocking the Queen of UK, only for ENG to win the WC

6. 2021 WT20: Tried & tested Mauka Mauka also fails.

The issue here isn't how promos have failed. They can fail since broadcasters have no control over performance. And broadcasters
should know that. The issue is, these promos rarely talk cricket, show Indians as overconfident & arrogant bunch who are full of themselves. This also leads to fans of other countries disliking Indian team like we used to dislike Australia. And when the team loses, the second
hand embarrassment as fans is too much. And regardless of how much the cricketers try and play down such stuff, it creates toxic pressure from occasional viewers which then leads to unreal takes like the ones we have seen on social media, Whatsapp & real life. A promo/ad from
Star asking the fans to back the team when they are down would have served much better at this point of time than asking for 'revenge'.

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So many things wrong in this tweet that I can't even...

1. It's NOT a turning track.
2. Sweep with conviction & be aggresive are two different statements which could easily be mutually exclusives.
3 Field was already spread.

Will explain the 2nd point in the thread below

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Cook played the sweep with conviction in 2012 but he wasn't overly aggressive while facing Indian spinners. Plus, sweep is a special shot which not every batsman can play. Pietersen was aggresive in Mumbai but he didn't play the sweep much because the pitch had extra bounce.
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