A video is going viral on social media platforms that claims India’s star cricketer Rohit Sharma has won 8 crore Jackpot through a gaming app available on the Internet. In this video, a news anchor of channel News 18 can be seen reading the news and claiming that Rohit Sharma will not earn money by playing cricket only but for additional income, he plays games on the ‘Great Riches’ app and he has recently won a cash prize of 8 crore rupees through this gaming app.
Rohit Sharma is serving as a captain in the Indian Cricket Team. He is considered as one of the greatest opening batters of all time. Not only this but he also captains Mumbai Indians in IPL.
Sharing a video on Facebook (meta), a user named HsdkM1617 wrote: “India’s First official app”.
Fact-Check
To verify the claims made in the above viral video, the Dfrac team visited the official website and social media handles of News 18. We found that no such was published by the news channel.
In addition to that, the team also went through the social media handles of Cricketer Rohit Sharma. We didn’t find any post regarding the above viral claim.
Subsequently, the team converted the viral video into some keyframes and reverse-searched it on Google. We discovered a video on the YouTube channel of a Standup Comedian named Vikram Sathaye with the title: “Rohit Sharma & Ajinkya Rahane | What The Duck | With Vikram Sathaye”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hKyWp_UwV94
The video was an interview of Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane discussing their cricketing journey together since they were 19 years old. The cricketers didn’t mention anything related to cash prizes or money in their interview. Rohit Sharma’s part in the viral video was similar to the video uploaded on Vikram Sathaye’s YouTube Channel at 10 minutes and 47 seconds. It indicates that the above viral video is edited for promotional purposes only.
Conclusion
Dfrac’s Fact-Check proves that the above viral video claiming Rohit Sharma has won a cash prize is misleading. The viral video has been edited for promotional purposes only. Therefore, the claim of social media users is false.
