{"id":362548,"date":"2023-08-30T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/30\/asia-cup-2023-opening-ceremony-sees-fans-trigger-hilarious-meme-fest-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:20:00","slug":"asia-cup-2023-opening-ceremony-sees-fans-trigger-hilarious-meme-fest-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/30\/asia-cup-2023-opening-ceremony-sees-fans-trigger-hilarious-meme-fest-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2023 Opening Ceremony Sees Fans Trigger Hilarious Meme Fest | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-08\/t8hrvje8_aima-baig-trishala-gurung_625x300_30_August_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><b class=\"place_cont\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Asia Cup got underway on Wednesday with a modest opening ceremony at the Multan Cricket Stadium. The opening ceremony featured Pakistani singer Aima Baig and Nepal&#8217;s Trishala Gurung. Baig has over 6 million followers on Instagram and is a famous singer in Pakistan. As for Trishala, she has also delivered some hit numbers in Nepal, and has a fan following of over 239,000 on Instagram. However, the opening ceremony last nearly 15 minutes, drawing criticism from fans.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani fans, especially, took to X (formerly Twitter) to express their disappointment over the opening ceremony of the Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s how social media reacted:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pakistanis after listening to Aima Baig&#8217;s Singing at the Opening ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AsiaCup23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AsiaCup23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jCsIRljhe4\">pic.twitter.com\/jCsIRljhe4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 N (@SaadonaBreak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaadonaBreak\/status\/1696821164977365117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Everyone while seeing Aima baig in Opening ceremony of Asiacup 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PAKvsNEP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PAKvsNEP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2y6F1c969g\">pic.twitter.com\/2y6F1c969g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U M A R (@Agrumpycomedian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Agrumpycomedian\/status\/1696821143716696501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chahat Fateh the Great would have performed much better then Aima Baig at the opening ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iTBxTsqND7\">pic.twitter.com\/iTBxTsqND7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahmad Nabeel (@ANjutt00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANjutt00\/status\/1696823582620328116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How PCB management prepared for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AsiaCup23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AsiaCup23<\/a> opening ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HIC2DwQWPg\">pic.twitter.com\/HIC2DwQWPg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (@aquidtweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aquidtweets\/status\/1696817770292511176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Amidst economical crises, Pakistani awam watching opening ceremony of Asia Cup: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2fuOinmApn\">pic.twitter.com\/2fuOinmApn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J110 (@jawismm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jawismm\/status\/1696821356380541087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, Pakistan captain <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/cricket\/players\/59905-mohammad-babar-azam-playerprofile\" title=\"Babar Azam\">Babar Azam<\/a> won the toss and opted to bat in the opening match of the Asia Cup against Nepal at the Multan Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n<p>The six-nation Asia Cup is being co-hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka, after India refused to tour Pakistan for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal is playing in the Asia Cup for the first time, after qualifying by winning the Asian Premier Cup in April.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, India and Nepal are in Group A while defending champions Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>(With AFP Inputs<\/p>\n<div class=\"tgs\">\n<p>Topics mentioned in this article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/asia-cup-2023\/asia-cup-2023-opening-ceremony-sees-fans-trigger-hilarious-meme-fest-4342232\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Asia Cup got underway on Wednesday with a modest opening ceremony at the Multan Cricket Stadium. The opening ceremony featured Pakistani singer Aima Baig and Nepal&#8217;s Trishala Gurung. Baig has over 6 million followers on Instagram and is a famous singer in Pakistan. As for Trishala, she has also delivered some hit numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":362549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23623,6370,365583,3476,811],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}