Well played Team India: Bollywood on win over South Africa

Expressions like “Well done India!”, “glorious victory” and “superb team effort” flooded the social media as celebrities including Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan took to micro-blogging site Twitter to rejoice over India’s win over South Africa in a World Cup pool B match Sunday.

With the victory, India managed to break a 23-year-old jinx.

The members of the film fraternity also lauded the performance of the team with a special mention of Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and cricketers Shikhar Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane.

Here’s what they tweeted:

Lata Mangeshkar: Hamari Bhartiya Cricket Team,Shikhar Dhawan aur lucky Captain Dhoni ko shaandar jeet ke liye bohot badhaai. (I would like to congratulate our Indian cricket team, Shikhar Dhawan and lucky captain Dhoni for the glorious victory)

Amitabh Bachchan: History has been created in the Cricket game today…I watched the entire MATCH on TV…hahahah aha…AND WE WON!!!

Anil Kapoor: Congratulations to team #India. Our first victory over South Africa in the World Cup Tournament. #BleedBlue #CWC15 #IndiaVsSA

Aamir Khan: Well done India! One step closer!

Shahid Kapoor: What a start for the defending champs. 2 convincing wins by us. I’m getting pumpppped.

Sonakshi Sinha: Aaaand team INDIA does it again!!! Woo hoo! #BleedBlue #INDvSA #WorldCup2015

Alia Bhatt: Whattt a winnnnnnn!!!!! Wohoooo goo INDIAAAAA !!!! #IndvsSA #WeWontGiveItBack #BleedBlue #ICCWorldCup

Varun Dhawan: Victory. The boys are back in town. #dhawan shows his class in Australia #IndvsSA #badla after 4 workd cups

Sushant Singh Rajput: From maintaining a win record in the last match to creating one today…this is #TeamIndia,still,A World Champion. #IndvsSA #WeWontGiveItBack

Anupam Kher: CONGRATULATIONS INDIA. Bharat Mata Ki Jai. Thank you Team India for this great victory..:) #MyCountryBest

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: #CWC15 @msdhoni way to go mahi love to all the boys a true team victory

Preity Zinta: Yeahhhhh!!! What a spectacular WIN by India Superb team effort #BoysInBlue #INDvSA #shikhardhawan #BleedBlue Tingggggg !!!

Manoj Bajpayee: Congrats team India! All areas played beautifully. Rahane is back.oh boy what batting rahane exhibited!

Randeep Hooda: This was an emphatic win .Congratulations Team India. Such a relief to see super fielding and run outs by the fast bowlers..Carry the form

Farhan Akhtar: Spectacular victory. Well played Team India. #IndiaVsSA #CWC15

Arjun Rampal: One more step closer. Congratulations India what a huge victory.#worldchampionsindia #wewontgiveitback

Huma Qureshi: Indiaaaaa #Proud

Sanjay Gupta: JEEYO TEAM INDIA.

Prosenjit Chatterjee: Congrats to Indian team..what a performance..India beats SA by 130 runs..Cheers

Saqib Saleem: Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Abhi toh party shuru hai…we looked like a team on a mission…well played boys!!

Kunal Kohli: I had faith we would peak at the right time & we sure did. #INDvSA They said our bowling is weak we got #SA & #Pak out. Who’s next?

Sophie Choudry: Yesssss!!! We finally beat the team we always lose to in the World Cup & How!!! AWESOME job #TeamIndia #BleedBlue #IndvsSA #WC2015 #Proud

Inputs By IANS