According to his Twitter bio, Harsh Goenka, the chairman of RPG Enterprises, and brother of Sanjiv Goenka, the owner of Indian Premier League outfit the Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS), claims to love people and cricket.
However, that didn’t seem to alert him to the consequences of deriding one of India’s most celebrated sporting icons in favour of the Australian captain whose antics in the recently concluded Test series against the Indian team made him Public Enemy No. 1.
His tweet on Thursday evening, which was live for a couple of hours before being taken down, following Steve Smith’s outstanding innings that guided RPS to victory over Mumbai Indians didn’t go down well with Indian cricket fans.
Goenka took Smith’s match-winning unbeaten 84 as an opportunity to praise the controversial decision to hand him the captaincy over MS Dhoni.
He claimed that the innings showed how Smith “overshadows’ Dhoni totally”, therefore justifying the decision to name him captain instead.
Twitter retaliated…
Goenka then posted this: