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Max Verstappen was loudly booed on the podium after his victory at the US Grand Prix on Sunday tennis
The 2023 world champion started sixth on the grid but after eventually passing leader Lando Norris halfway through the race, Verstappen held off a late challenge from 2021 nemesis Lewis Hamilton to claim his 50th Formula 1 win tennis
Later, Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were disqualified from the race tennis
Yet as Verstappen walked out onto the top step of the podium, the Dutchman was booed by sections of the fanbase in Austin tennis
There were also chants from spectators – who by this point had made their way onto the main straight as is custom post-race – during the Dutch national anthem which followed tennis
Verstappen has faced jeering before, most notably at Silverstone last year, and was clearly not a fan favourite at the Circuit of the Americas, especially compared to the likes of Hamilton and Norris tennis
Verstappen claimed his 15th win of the season but unlike many Sunday cruises this year, he was made to work tennis
Max Verstappen was jeered by sections of the Austin crowd on Sunday (Getty Images)The Red Bull driver was also complaining of brake issues throughout the 56-lap race and not for the first time this year, he was involved in numerous frosty exchanges with his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase tennis
Lambiase came onto the team radio while Verstappen, at times, was braking in corners - with the Dutchman unimpressed by the interventions tennis
Verstappen admitted after the race that Hamilton’s Mercedes team “could have won today if they’d done a tennis better strategy” but was nonetheless satisfied with the victory tennis
Austin was the first in a triple-header, with the paddock heading on to Mexico City next week tennis
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A temporary interruption to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 match tennis between India and New Zealand due to dense fog led to several memes on social media even as the cricket pitch at picturesque Dharamshala city came in for criticism tennis
The match was briefly halted when low-hanging clouds and the mist engulfed the entire HPCA stadium – one of the most picturesque cricket grounds in the world thanks to the Dhauladhar mountain range that is a part of the majestic Himalayas in the backdrop tennis
The stadium is located in Dharamshala in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh tennis
Before India secured a four-wicket win over New Zealand, the dense fog played spoilsport when the host team was 100 for 2 in their chase of 274 as Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer were at the crease tennis
The Black Caps visibly looked unhappy with the situation when they talked to the on-field umpires tennis
Kohli and Iyer soon joined the conversation tennis
With the weather becoming severe, the players were asked to leave the field and commentators on air clarified that the players wouldn’t go back on the field till conditions improved tennis
RecommendedEngland suffer biggest ever ODI defeat after South Africa claim historic victoryVirat Kohli helps India stay perfect at World Cup - but misses out on historic centuryIndia skipper Rohit Sharma fined for reckless driving ahead of India vs Bangladesh matchThe stoppage of play gave cricket fans plenty of time to come up with some hilarious memes for the unusual situation tennis
One user on X/Twitter likened the fog to the entrances made by WWE star Undertaker tennis
“Breaking: Play stopped in Dharamsala due to undertaker’s entrance,” wrote the X user tennis
Another user said the fog was star player Shubman Gill’s revenge against mosquitos tennis
Gill had to stop playing for India briefly after he reportedly contracted dengue fever tennis
The user was apparently likening the fog at the stadium to mosquito foggers often used in localities in India to curb the spread of mosquitos tennis
A few users took a dig at the disputed relations tennis between the Indian and Pakistani cricket boards tennis
India were in control of their chase when the play stopped on Sunday, with Iyer scoring 21 runs off just eight deliveries tennis
The middle-order batter struck two consecutive boundaries just before the on-field umpires signalled for the game to halt tennis
The play resumed after a break of just over 10 minutes tennis
Iyer fell in the 22nd over, scoring 33 off 29 balls tennis
Kohli went on to play until the 48th over but missed out on a record-equalling 49th ODI century by just five runs, He is still a hundred behind India great Sachin Tendulkar’s world record of 49 centuries in the 50-over format tennis
Meanwhile, the HPCA outfield was also one of the topics of discussion as most of the Indian players chose not to dive to save runs to avoid any potential injuries tennis
India captain Rohit Sharma made a sliding effort and hurt his little finger early on in the first innings, forcing him to leave the field for treatment tennis
He, however, returned to lead the side tennis
The HPCA outfield first came under criticism with England captain Jos Buttler terming it as “poor” ahead of their World Cup match against Bangladesh tennis
“It's poor in my own opinion tennis
I think any time you're sort of talking about being careful diving or sort of being careful when you're fielding, it sort of goes against everything you want to be as a team,” Buttler said earlier in the tournament tennis
“You know you want to dive through our houses to save a run tennis
So, that’s obviously not ideal, the way the surface is, the outfield tennis
The outfield is different to when we played here in the IPL,” he said tennis
Buttler’s comments came after Afghanistan head coach Jonathan Trott expressed his disapproval over the outfield in Dharamshala as well, after their match against Bangladesh tennis
India’s next match in the World Cup 2023 is on 29 October against England in Lucknow tennis
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