“Feel for Abhishek Sharma”: Netizens react as opener registers three ducks in a row

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Abhishek Sharma

Three ducks in three matches. Abhishek Sharma’s bad patch continues. On Wednesday, February 18, the opener was dismissed for a three-ball duck against the Netherlands.

Before the T20 World Cup 2026, Sharma appeared as the brightest hope for Team India. But the reality is brutal. After playing 3 matches in the tournament, he is yet to score his first run in the competition. Fans across social media platforms expressed their emotions through various posts.

Team India as a unit playing fantastically good

With three back-to-back wins, India stormed into the next round, which is the round of eight of the ongoing 2026 T20 World Cup, for which one more group match was to be played.

The India vs Netherlands match is actually a dead rubber, as the future of both teams is clear in the tournament. While India will play the next round, the Netherlands will take flight to go home.

Still, no teams desire to lose any matches. India, the co-hosts of the 2026 T20 World Cup, walked into the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad with the aim to carry on their winning streak. Before taking on the Netherlands, the Men in Blue successfully left the United States, Namibia, and Pakistan in pain.

It was a flatter from the Dutch spinner against Abhishek Sharma

On paper, the Dutch have nothing to match with the defending champions. Things suddenly took a turn when Sharma was dismissed by Aryan Dutt, a spinner. Dutt pitched a short ball of the length, flatter. The batter went on his back foot to play the ball and ended in a bowl.

The ball was on the stumps and skidded a bit as well. The left-handed batter missed every part of the ball. The Dutch spinner hit it right on the leg stump, a bull’s-eye moment for the Netherlands cricket team.

Same plan, same result

It was a well-planned maneuver from the team in orange. During the India vs Pakistan match, Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha, who is also a spinner, surprisingly came to bowl early in the match and successfully took the wicket of the southpaw.

Netherlands repeated the same—a spinner with the new ball to dispatch the Punjab-born. India lost their first wicket in the third ball of the first over for a zero on the scoreboard.

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