For cricket lovers, the most awaited season of the game is here. Starting today, the 12th edition of Cricket World Cup, officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 will take place in England and Wales, with 10 countries aiming to get the most coveted trophy of the cricket world. Just like the sport assumes a simile of being a religion in India, the excitement is seen even in other participating countries. And if cricket is a religion, then the players are no less than Gods. Today when everything significant finds a place on social media, micro-blogging Twitter has also made a significant contribution by introducing special hashtags and emojis to denote each country and their captains. The official handle of Cricket World Cup, unveiled the slogan hashtags along with the emojis for all captains of the cricket teams participating in CWC19. ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Schedule in IST, Free PDF Download: Full Timetable of CWC19 Fixtures With Match Timings and Venue Details.
The ten participating teams are England, India, Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. Each of these teams gets a special hashtag, serving an encouragement along with their respective jersey colour, rather an emoji of their jersey. The Indian cricket team is represented with #TeamIndia, England with #WeAreEngland, Sri Lanka with #LionsRoar and so on.
Watch Video of Special Hashtags Introduced for ICC World Cup 2019 Teams:
Our friends at @TwitterSports have made emojis for each @cricketworldcup team (plus a trophy for the #CWC19 hashtag!)
Go on, give it a go 😎#AfghanAtalan#CmonAussie#RiseOfTheTigers#WeAreEngland#TeamIndia#BACKTHEBLACKCAPS#WeHaveWeWill#ProteaFire#LionsRoar#MenInMaroon pic.twitter.com/70necWvKCT
— Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) May 29, 2019
A captain represents their team and so a special set of emojis are also released for respective captains of each team. ICC Cricket World Cup 2019: Meet Captains of All 10 Participating Teams.
Watch Video of Special Emojis Introduced for Captains of CWC 2019 Captains:
(it also works for the #CWC19 captains!!)#GulbadinNaib#AaronFinch#MashrafeMortaza#EoinMorgan#ViratKohli#KaneWilliamson#SarfarazAhmed#FafDuPlessis#DimuthKarunaratne#JasonHolder pic.twitter.com/CEr5Mc1Coy
— Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) May 29, 2019
These special hashtags and emojis are just another way of getting more people interested in talking about the sport online. Also, the main hashtag denoting the Cricket World Cup, #CWC19 gets a trophy alongside. We are the dire cricket fans would love the customised addition of their favourite teams and players. So get ready to start tapping the keys to tweet all updates about the Cricket World Cup 2019 or should we say #CWC2019, with a trophy popping up, of course!
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