The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted photos of the Indian men’s cricket team wearing their new jerseys for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 ahead of the start of the tournament, which gets underway on February 19. Eight teams will vie for a trophy as Pakistan hosts its first ICC event since the 1996 World Cup. The Champions Trophy’s first match will see hosts and defending champions Pakistan, having won the last edition in 2017, and New Zealand at the National Stadium in Karachi. Amidst this, a video is being widely shared on social media platforms.
A video showed cricketer Rohit Sharma being welcomed at an airport it was claimed that the video was recent and from Pakistan.
Claim:
Instagram user Faizan Khan shared the video on Instagram.
Other users too are sharing the same video.
Investigation:
We started the investigation by running a reverse image search on the keyframes obtained from the video.
During the reverse image search, we found the video posted on the Instagram handle, ‘Rohitions45‘.
The video was captioned: The grand welcome of boss Rohit Sharma at Rashin Maharashtra.
The video was posted on October 3, 2024.
We found several such videos mentioning that the visuals were from Maharashtra.
We found several news reports associated with the event.
Conclusion: The viral claim and video stating cricketer Rohit Sharma was welcomed in Pakistan is misleading. The video is from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra when Rohit Sharma launched his new cricket academy.
