The ICC or the International Cricket Council is known to generally busy itself with important matters; and is less known for its keen sense of humour. However, it tweeted an image with the accompanying phrase – “profile picture vs the full picture”, this tickled a lot of people’s fancy and triggered a meme fest.
How the perspective can change – simply by zooming in, or cropping a picture, you can show a poor shot to be a brilliant one!
The post caught the attention of the Tweeple because this isn’t the sort of post ICC would typically make.
ICC’s post probably struck a chord also because of the proliferation of fake and misleading news these days; the way people cherry pick to further their own narratives.
The impression that a picture creates can be very different from reality; people thought it was all very funny.
In the closeup, it looks like he heaved it to the fence. When we see the whole picture, we see the truth.
By simply not showing the entire picture, one can tell an outright lie, lie by omission, mislead or overstate reality.
However, it may be pointed out that the bowler/fielder cannot runout the batsman when he has simply strolled down the pitch to chat with the nonstriker or vice versa.
It is true that we all use our most flattering pictures as our DPs. Some of us also enhance, edit, filter and crop those images to belie what we look like, where we are, who is with us.
Sometimes the picture is just so awkward that one has to crop or edit it in some way.
The pictures on our Aadhaar cards, driver's licences, passports or other IDs tend to be almost universally bad.
This tweet draws attention to the might and clout of the BCCI vis-à-vis other cricket bodies; including perhaps the ICC itself!
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