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World Cup 2023: Glenn Maxwell touching Sachin Tendulkar's feet, Here's Fact Check
Published : Nov 16, 2023, 12:17 pm IST
Updated : Nov 16, 2023, 12:56 pm IST
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Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral post misleading

World Cup 2023 News: In the Afghanistan vs Australia match held on November 7, Australian batsman Glenn Maxwell played the genuine match winning innings of 201 runs for his team. Due to which the Australian team made a place in the semi-finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. A Picture is going viral on social media in which Glenn Maxwell can be seen touching the feet of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. It is being claimed that after defeating Afghanistan, Maxwell touched Sachin Tendulkar's feet.

Facebook page "Tvs Pandit" shared a viral picture on 10 November 2023 and claimed that after defeating Afghanistan in the CWC 2023 league match, Maxwell touched Sachin Tendulkar's feet.

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Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral post misleading. "Viral picture is edited".

-- Spokesman's Investigation

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Starting the investigation, we did keyword search on this matter. If Glenn Maxwell had touched Sachin Tendulkar's feet, then that news would have taken the form of a headline, but we did not got any official news about the viral claim.

However, we found a video which was shared by the ICC claiming that the Afghanistan team met Sachin Tendulkar at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In this video, the moments of the meeting between Sachin Tendulkar and the Afghanistan team can be seen.

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Notable thing in this video was that Sachin Tendulkar is wearing same T-shirt seen in the viral picture. Sachin is wearing a striped t-shirt and the same t-shirt can be seen in the viral picture too.

Moving ahead, keeping this information in mind, we did keyword search and we found Sachin's picture on the image stock website Getty Images which was exactly the same as the viral picture. The difference in this picture was that Sachin was shaking hands with a member of the Afghanistan cricket team and Glenn Maxwell was not in it.

Similarities between the viral image and the original image can be seen in the collage below.

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Conclusion – Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral post misleading. "Viral picture is edited".
 

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ROZANA SPOKESMAN , AMANAT THAPER

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