Akshay prompt to apologies

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar attended the Women’s Cricket World Cup final at Lord’s cricket ground, London, on July 23. Although our women in blue couldn’t lift the cup, they won everyone’s heart back home in India.  However, the actor soon found himself in the eye of a storm after he posted a picture of himself waving the Indian flag upside down. But the moment Akshay realised his mistake, he deleted all the pictures from his social networking portals. But by then, the Twitterattis got after the actor to lambast him for the mistake. Instead of defending himself, Akshay showed his maturity by apologising through Twitter. “Extending my sincerest apology for violating the code of conduct for the tricolour. Didn’t mean to offend anyone, the picture has been removed (sic),” the actor wrote on his Twitter account.

However the zeal with which the girls played the world cup has given Akshay an idea: how about Indian men and women cricketers coming together to form one team?

“Like there are mixed doubles in tennis, why can’t there be a men and women cricket match against another country? Why can’t they have mixed cricket teams where six Indian men and six Indian women play against Australia’s six men and six women? If this kind of a setup happens, it will be the biggest set-up ever,” expressed  Akshay, who was struck by the idea while watching a Wimbledon match on his phone. The actor not only rooted for the Indian women’s team but also met them after the match. “I was talking to the girls and one of them said that it would be so much fun if Virat Kohli ran from one side and a lady was on the other side [of the batting pitch],” he says.