Indian cricket fans losing their marbles over a hilarious tweet

A simple joke by an Aussie journalist has riled up some with no sense of humour

Of the many things strange about this Internet chap is it being bipolar. One moment it's all jokey and good sport and the next it goes all serious and sensitive on you.

You never know where its mood swings might take you, and this sometimes exposes us the unknowing, socially-inept types to a bunch of trouble.

This recently happened with Australian sports journalist Dennis Freedman, who famously has a soft spot for Pakistan cricket team but was merely jesting when he tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/DennisCricket_/status/907521353602940928

Now the netizens and the Twitterati crack and make up all kinds of jokes all day long, but unfortunately for Mr Freedman, their sense of humour went amiss on this one.

For fans of the Indian cricket team, it is near blasphemous for a foreign critic to even joke about their beloved players. Local critics are fine and their wit would still register, but when a non-Indian makes fun of their own, all hell breaks loose.

Of course, the backlash was on the cards.

https://twitter.com/Subu_dhnu/status/908281889206697984

https://twitter.com/1frm90Migration/status/907569680747024384

https://twitter.com/DennisCricket_/status/908086730665816065

We reached to mars whereas our neighbours looking at our shit... Isn't that silly? First try to learn from VK how to play before commenting! pic.twitter.com/tPl8Xtc5hi

— Uday Kasoju (@Uday_kasoju) September 12, 2017

Whatever happened to treating a joke as a joke?