Baba Ramdev 'invents' special shoe for Team India to avoid no-balls

A meme doing the rounds of social media suggests that Baba Ramdev is planning to gift Team India special shoes that will help them eliminate the menace of bowling no balls

Baba Ramdev

Yoga guru Swami Ramdev initiated complacent Indians into yoga by exhorting them to rub fingernails and then proceeded to sell everything from toothpaste to food products to clothes to his followers. Dressed in his trademark saffron loincloth, the Baba is had led his Patanjali brand into FMCG and healthcare products. And now he's launched a special product for the Indian cricket team -- a show that ensures they never bowl a no-ball again. 

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Well, that's what Twitterati seem to be suggesting. Tweeple are sharing a meme that suggests that the yoga guru will soon come out with a sports shoe that will allow the likes of leggie Amit Mishra and Hardik Pandya to not worry about the extras. Former India opener Virender Sehwag also retweeted the meme.

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— UMESH CHAND (@umeshchand319) January 30, 2017

In the second T20 international between India and England in Nagpur, leg-spinner Amit Mishra produced a perfect googly to hit the top of off stump and claim dangerman Ben Stokes. However, the third umpire revealed that Mishra's front foot had crossed the line. Stokes took advantage of the lucky break to almost win the match and seal the series for England. Stokes scored a 30-ball 38 and was involved in a 52-run partnership with Joe Root before Ashish Nehra took the all-rounder's scalp in the 17th over. Had it not been for Nehra and Jasprit Bumrah, India wouldn't have won the match and levelled the three-match series 1-1.

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The wicket that wasn't: Amit Mishra's no-ball cost him Ben Stokes' wicket during the second T20 cricket match between India and England at the Vidarbha Cricket Association's Jamtha stadium in Nagpur on Sunday. Pic/AFP

So, Twitter decided to take an old meme out of the cupboard and make sure Ramdev Baba 'gifted' this special footwear to Team India in order to eliminate no-balls.

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Baba Ramdev has 'gifted' these shoes to Team India

So, what do you think? Should the Indian team start wearing these shoes? Or should they try more conventional methods? 

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