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Ahead of ICC Women’s World Cup 2017, The actor wished the Indian team and tweeted, “Waiting for a repeat of Sourav Ganguly’s act on the balcony of The Lords Ground,London,when India beat England 2002 NatWest series final! YO,” along with a photograph of Sourav Ganguly’s famous celebratory moment where he removed his shirt and waved it at the fans. 

Naturally, the sexist tweet didn’t go down well with Twitterati and the actor was trolled and criticised harshly for the statement. After the severe backlash online, Rishi Kapoor tried to wriggle his way out of the situation by turning the table on one of the trolls. 

“What wrong have I said? I didn’t say any female player should! I only said Sourav Ganguly should repeat his show. You have a wrong mind dear!” However, twitter wasn’t buying it and one of the twitter users, Priya Yadav asked, “Have you checked whether Sourav Ganguly is at the Lord’s?  Please don’t try to cover up your sexism with stupidity.” 

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