Adam Zampa just won the T20 World Cup, but a new Instagram post shows even his teammates aren’t safe from his revenge.
Adam Zampa is a man to be feared on social media — and now Aussie T20 World Cup hero Matthew Wade knows it all too well.
Zampa’s Instagram assassinations have been making headlines in the wake of Australia’s historic victory over New Zealand in the final Dubai earlier this month.
Now he’s turning his flamethrower on Wade in a hilarious slap over the moment the keeper dropped a catch on the delivery Zampa was bowling for a hat-trick.
The spinner was a terminator as Australia ripped through Bangladesh for just 73 runs in their group stage match earlier in the tournament where he finished with career best figures of 5/19.
But it could have been even better.
Coming in to bowl for the start of his fourth over on-a-hat-trick, Zampa tossed it up to Taskin Ahmed, but Wade couldn’t snaffle the ball after it collected a thick outside edge.
Zampa was well aware of the situation as well.
“That was my hat-trick ball,” he yelled back at Wade.
Wade replied: “Yeah, I tried to catch it.”
Even with Wade’s thrilling pyrotechnics in the World Cup semifinal, Zampa is not ready to let his teammate get away with the dropped hat-trick.
He took to Instagram on Tuesday and poked fun of the situation by putting a fake pair of Wade’s keeping gloves up for auction with a cheeky caption: “Matthew Wade dropped hatrick glove. Brand New. Unused”.
The item was put up for sale at $10,000 with a described condition as “brand new”.
It has left plenty in the cricket world chortling.
It comes after Zampa also burned England captain Michael Vaughan over his pre-tournament slap in the face of the Aussie team.
Zampa, who was named in the official ICC team of the tournament, came for Vaughan on Instagram as a result of a prediction that blew up in his face.
“I’ll say it now, I don’t give Australia much chance. In T20 cricket they’ve struggled. Glenn Maxwell’s exceptional so he will have to have an incredible tournament. But I don’t see the Aussies doing too much. England, India, West Indies, New Zealand, one of those four and maybe Pakistan because of the conditions,” Vaughan had said on BBC Test Match Special on October 19.
Zampa did not let him get away with that.
He posted a shot of the Aussie team celebrating inside their dressing room following the final in Dubai — and captioned it with the quote Vaughan made last month.
Originally published as Adam Zampa’s teammate sledge shows you do not want to disappoint him
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