{"id":478021,"date":"2023-06-26T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=478021"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:43:28","slug":"dhoni-candy-crush-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/trending\/dhoni-candy-crush-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhoni fans couldn\u2019t stop themselves from gushing over Candy Crush after his video went viral | Watch here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The internet is ablaze with a viral video of MS Dhoni playing Candy Crush on his tablet while flying on an IndiGo flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video, captain cool is seen accepting sweets from an IndiGo air hostess. The legendary Indian cricketer heartily thanked her and spoke with her. &nbsp;While he was busy talking with the airhostess, the same video captured a tab kept infront of him. Dhoni was playing the popular game Cand Crush on his tab before the airhostess came to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captivating photos of Dhoni playing Candy Crush grabbed fans&#8217; interest. Following Dhoni&#8217;s video, #CandyCrush began to trend on the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Many Twitter users expressed their fondness for the game in their posts, and others praised Dhoni&#8217;s endearing pastime. However, according to several online users, Dhoni was actually playing Pet Rescue Saga and not Candy Crush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MS Dhoni &#8211; the crowd favourite. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltpud9P9Jj\">pic.twitter.com\/ltpud9P9Jj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mufaddal_vohra\/status\/1672897357212708864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, after the video went viral online, Candy Crush became popular on Twitter. In just three hours more than 30 lakh people downloaded the mobile game app, according to the developer. The official Twitter account for Candy Crush thanked Dhoni for making the game popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/teams_dream\/status\/1672944660250238976\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They tweeted that they received 3.6 million new downloads in just 3 Hours. Many thanks to Indian cricket legend @msdhoni. Due to him, we are trending in India, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, Dhoni is not just an excellent cricket player but also a die-hard gamer. Dhoni likes to play PUBG, FIFA, and Call of Duty. Indian bowler Ishant Sharma, admitted on The Ranveer Show on YouTube that they all carry PlayStations wherever they go. Mahi bhai enjoys playing PubG and other online\/video games like Call of Duty, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the former India captain, who registered his fifth win in IPL, had successful surgery on his left knee earlier this month in a Mumbai hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just three hours more than 30 lakh people downloaded the mobile game app, according to the developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":478027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[110599],"tags":[71399,140824,39984,2828],"yst_prominent_words":[7507,78144,4531,24330,3887,8915,25383,11206,82020,4590,4133,19792],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/06\/26123902\/MS-Dhoni-playing-Candy-Crush-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478021"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=478021"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=478021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->