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Fact Check: The image showing Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma with huge belly is morphed

Indian cricket team played a one and only warm up match of the T20 World cup 2024 with the Bangladesh team on June 1, 2024. In this match, India beat Bangladesh with a huge margin of 60 runs. Indian team, led by Captain Rohit Sharma, put up a stellar performance and beat Bangladesh team.

By 5 Jun 2024 12:04 PM GMT
Rohit Sharma

  • Claim :

    The viral image shows Rohit Sharma out of shape with a huge belly

  • Fact :

    The image of Rohit Sharma is morphed. The original photo shows that he is fit and has no fat belly

Indian cricket team played a one and only warm up match of the T20 World cup 2024 with the Bangladesh team on June 1, 2024. In this match, India beat Bangladesh with a huge margin of 60 runs. Indian team, led by Captain Rohit Sharma, put up a stellar performance and beat Bangladesh team.

An image of Rohit Sharma flaunting a big belly during the cricket match on the field is going viral on the social media platforms with the comments like ‘Wah g Wah Fitness of Indian Captain Rohit Sharma’, ‘is Rohit Sharma trying to follow Azam Khan?

Some other users shared the image with the caption ‘peak male body. Agree or die girls!!






Fact Check:

The claim that Indian cricket captain Rohit Sharma was seen with a huge belly during India -Bangladesh warm up match held on June 1, 2024 is False. The viral image is morphed and not real. When we searched the image using reverse image search, we found a few articles stating that the image is a morphed one.

We found a post on X (twitter) that shared the original image with the caption ‘This is the real pic of Captain Rohit Sharma from last match. But chokli PR edited this pic and posted from many different accounts. Never forgive that Bollywood raan for this.’

According to NDTV sports, the viral image is a morphed one. A few days back, Rohit took part in an official photoshoot for the T20 World Cup. The pictures show that he is not out of shape.

His photoshoot images were shared by an X page named MI fans army.

An image of both the captains during the toss was shared by the BCCI, which shows Rohit Sharma was fit and in good shape.

Therefore, the viral image showing Indian cricket captain Rohit Sharma out of shape with big belly, in circulation on the social media is morphed. The claim is False.

Claim :   The viral image shows Rohit Sharma out of shape with a huge belly
Claimed By :  Social media users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Fact Check
Claim Source :  Social media
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - The image showing Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma with huge belly is morphed
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A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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