YouTube and Twitch personality Darren Watkins Jr., better known as ‘IShowSpeed’, was seen sporting an Indian jersey at the World Test Championship Final, which is currently taking place at The Oval between India and Australia. The content creator, who is well-known for being a Cristiano Ronaldo super-fan, has recently grown to admire Virat Kohli and has reacted on many YouTube videos featuring him playing cricket.
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The YouTuber is a huge sports lover, especially of football, and has frequently live-streamed events from stadiums. But this was the first time he was spotted wearing a cricket shirt and going to a game. With a large audience of over 16.5 million subscribers, fans, especially those of Indian descent, were immensely delighted as pictures and videos of IShowSpeed at the Oval circulated on Twitter. He was also seen conversing with former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.
Coming to the match, Australia solidified their grip on the WTC final as India’s top order fell in front of Australia’s pace attack in a pressure-filled encounter at on Thursday. Despite a valiant 71-run partnership off 100 balls between Ravindra Jadeja (48 off 51 balls) and Ajinkya Rahane (29* off 71), India were in a hazardous situation at stumps, reeling at 151 for five in response to Australia’s first innings total of 469, behind by 318 runs.
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