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Watch: South Africa Cricketers Struggle To Say 'Thiruvananthapuram'. Shashi Tharoor Reacts

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The South African cricket team has arrived in India for the Cricket World Cup 2023 and they have set their base currently in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

The South Africa cricketers started their practice and will play a Cricket World Cup warm-up match against New Zealand on Monday.

However, it is the name of the city that left few of the players scratching their heads and their struggle to pronounce ‘Thiruvananthapuram' was captured in a video which has gone viral on the social media.

In the video which was shared by politician Shashi Tharoor, most of the South African cricketers struggled to get the pronunciation correct and came up with hilarious sounding words.

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