Fact Check: The one who raised slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ is not an Australian cricketer, the viral video is old

A video is being shared on social media with the claim that the Australian cricketer is raising the slogan of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. Recently, Australia won the Pakistan-Australia cricket match, after which this video was widely shared on social media.

Lighthouse Journalism found in its investigation that the viral video is old. The person seen in the video is not an Australian cricketer, but a common cricket fan.

What is going viral?

While sharing the viral video from an

Other users are also sharing the same video.

What was found in the investigation?

We uploaded the video to the InVid tool, which gave us the keyframes of the video. We entered some keyframes into Google reverse image search. We found a news report in the search results. The headline of the news written in English is: Aussie fan goes “Bharat mata ki jai” in Brisbane after India wins Test

This news was published on January 19, 2021.

We also found a news related to this video published on CricTracker. Published on January 20, 2021, the headline of this story is- Australian fan chants ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ in Brisbane.

We also found this video on the Twitter profile of Dr Ashutosh Misra. The video was uploaded on January 18, 2021.

conclusion: The viral video which is being claimed to be of an Australian cricketer chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ during the World Cup 2023, is actually a video from 2021. This cricket fan had raised slogans of Bharat Mata ki Jai after India won the Test series against Australia at Gabba during the Border-Gavaskar tournament. Gabba is another name for the Brisbane Cricket Ground in Queensland, Australia.