A video is going viral on social media in which a man smashes his TV after watching the winning moments of India during the T20 World Cup match against Pakistan. The post description refers to him as a Pakistani. Let’s fact-check this video through this article.
Claim: Video of Pakistani cricket fan smashing his TV after the Indian team’s victory against Pakistan in the T20 cricket World Cup.
Fact: This is an old video shot in 2016. Reportedly, a woman pranked his boyfriend during a Euro 2016 football game between Turkey and Croatia by repeatedly turning off the TV during crucial moments of the match. The viral post contains a clip from this video in which the cricket match clip is digitally added to the TV screen. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
We ran a keyword search on the internet and were led to a few news reports about a man who smashed his TV while watching a football match.
Reportedly, this was a prank played on a man named Izzet Salti by his girlfriend when he was watching a Euro 2016 match between his country, Turkey and Croatia. Izzet’s girlfriend recorded his reaction as she turned off the TV during crucial moments of the match; as a result of it, he smashed his TV. An archived version of a Daily Mail article from 2016 can be read here to learn more about the incident.
The video uploaded on YouTube can be watched here; the viral video matches this from 2:16 seconds.
Incidents of Pakistani cricket fans breaking their TV sets have been reported in the past, which can be read here and here. But the viral video which is being shared in the context of India’s victory against Pakistan in the ongoing T20 World cup is a morphed one.
To summarise, an old video of a football fan smashing his TV set is morphed to make it look like he is watching the India-Pakistan T20 World Cup match.
