KL Rahul completes the #DeleAlliChallenge after catching Joe Root at slips; Twitter is on fire

It takes very little time for people all over the world to pick up the latest funda from the world of sports, and even little for Twitter to be set ablaze, provided such instances occur.

As of now, the latest in trending is probably the #DeleAlliChallenge, which has got the entire world sitting up, twisting their palms and fingers over their foreheads to obtain a satisfactory result - which would be comparable to that of what England footballer Dele Alli achieved, in the celebration following his deciding goal against Newcastle United FC, on August 11th - as shown below.

The tale of how Dele introduced yet another of his wacky moves last week

The weird positioning of the fingers over Alli's eye and forehead sparked curiosity, and soon everyone was trying to emulate the celebration. Most of them failed and probably ended up hurting themselves attempting something that looked 100% harmless. For instance:

Well that was a fail @Shabbaz77 #delechallenge #DeleAllichallenge #DelleAlliChallenge pic.twitter.com/c9sMnVa7lb

— Ali Hasan (@alihasan_4648) August 16, 2018

Just nearly dislocated my thumb trying to Dele Alli’s new thing 🙄😂 #DeleAllichallenge #fail #showmetheway

— Elle (@elliehosker) August 16, 2018

Take a look at Manchester United stars trying the apparent "sorcery":

✅ Paul Pogba✅ Ashley Young✖ FredCan you do the Dele Alli challenge!?________#MUFC #GGMU #ManchesterUnited #Pogba 📽 Instagram — [Jesse Lingard] pic.twitter.com/h3VNijiYlI

— Yahoo Sport UK (@YahooSportUK) August 18, 2018

Well, all jokes aside, we have now found a man who has finally succeeded in completing the challenge by himself (apart from Dele Alli himself and the writer, that is, me, of course). And the man does not belong to football at all - he is Indian cricket's maverick opener and "slip-fielding expert", KL Rahul.

Rahul is a part of India's slip cordon while fielding second at Trent Bridge, where England is fighting against India's mammoth total of 521 runs in the fourth innings. They are currently at 110/4, and while at 62/2, England captain Joe Root tugged at a Bumrah delivery pitched a tad wide of off-stump, and the ball, in turn, caught his bat's protruding edge and flew straight to Rahul. It did not take much effort for the player to latch on to it, and as the teammates came in to offer a big embrace, Rahul did the unthinkable.

He curled up his hand and rest it on his forehead, in the same exact manner that Dele Alli did a week ago, thus completing the challenge. Television broadcasters picked it up immediately, and so did the viewers, and everyone has been since rooted to Twitter, with reactions flowing in from far and wide. Take a look:

Amazing performance by Indian Team in Slips... KL Rahul with two brilliant catches... King Kohli with the passionate leap for 4th wicket... Seems it might be wrapped up before lunch...😉Btw KL Rahul did the celebration better than Dele Alli...👌🏻😂

— Apurva Tripathi (@aptr1311) August 21, 2018

KL Rahul takes stunner to dismiss Joe Root, and his Dele Alli celebration is the icing on the cake!#DeleAllichallenge@klrahul11 @dele_official @BCCI @englandcricket @England @SpursOfficial pic.twitter.com/zi4hooVwqi

— Harigovind Thoyakkat (@thoyakkatboy) August 21, 2018

Talk of the Town;)#KLRahul does #DeleAlli celebration#ENGvIND #Nottingham #TrentBridgeTest pic.twitter.com/MZ5L6jZja1

— mariam hussain (@28saleema) August 21, 2018

Well, let us now see how Dele Alli will react to that attempt, which by all means was perfect to our eyes.