Yuvraj Singh, the former all-rounder of the Indian cricket team, started the keep it up challenge on social media. He nominated Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma and Harbhajan Singh in this challenge.
After this the challenge went ahead. Many players also made changes on their behalf in this challenge.
Indian batsmen Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane put their twists in this act and completed it in a fun way.
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In such a situation, the players are spending time with family at home. Meanwhile, the Keep It Up Challenge has started on social media among cricketers.
Through this, players are asking fans to stay in the house as much as possible to prevent the spread of this Covid-19.
Shreyas Iyer has added a new twist to the Challenge. He juggled the ball with the bat’s straight side, side and back side.
Along with this, he also completed the challenge through the bat handle. Iyer thanked him for this challenge which he got from Rohit Sharma.
He then nominated Abhishek Nair, Shardul Thakur and Siddhesh Lad for the challenge.
Keep it up KL
Rahul completed the Challenge with two bats. This act of KL Rahul has been shared by the IPL team Kings XI Punjab on its official Twitter handle.
Just like his game, he’s good at keeping this up, too. 😅👌#SaddaPunjab #StayHomeStaySafe #KeepyUppyChallenge @klrahul11 pic.twitter.com/U6jxBRHld2
— Kings XI Punjab (@lionsdenkxip) May 18, 2020
Ajinkya Rahane completed the Challenge with a pink ball. While completing the fun act given by Rohit Sharma, Rahane nominated Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara and Wriddhiman Saha for this.
Coronavirus has seen the biggest jump in a day so far in India. In the last 24 hours, 5,611 new cases of coronavirus have been reported and around 140 people have died.
According to data released by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday, cases of coronavirus have increased to around 106750 across the country and 3303 people have died since Covid-19.
Corona has 61149 active cases out of a total of 106750 cases, while 42297 people have been discharged or have been cured.