Fact Check: Old Videos Of Indian Cricketers Revived As Recent After 2023 World Cup Final Loss

A set of four videos is going viral across social media, showing Indian cricketers purportedly apologizing for India's loss to Australia in the finals of the ICC World Cup 2023. The cricketers seen in the viral videos are Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

On November 19, India lost to Australia in the finals of the ICC World Cup 2023, where Australia clinched the victory by 6 wickets.

However, on running a reverse image and a relevant keyword search we found that the video is from April 2021, more than two years ago. Sharma posted the original video on his Facebook page on his birthday on April 30, 2021, thanking those wishing him and asking everyone to follow COVID-19 protocols in place at the time.

Meanwhile, the viral video of Viral Kohli is from May 2018, when he posted it after his IPL team - RCB did not perform well in that year's IPL.

I really believe in the concept of, "you either win or you learn". We fought hard and gave it our all but one thing is for sure, next season we definitely will bounce back stronger than ever with our learnings from this season.
Take care. @RCBTweets #RCB #IPL2018 pic.twitter.com/b0QM9chRAN

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) May 24, 2018