A lot can happen over an emoji, even if not intended to. Such is the world of social media.

Suryakumar Yadav's latest tweet on Saturday is the perfect example of that. The world's No.1 T20I batter took to X to post an emoji of a broken heart. Considering it came from a man who recently scored his fourth T20I century - joint most with Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell - and led India to a series-equalling victory over South Africa, it seemed doubly odd.

No wonder, the tweet garnered 52 thousand likes, 11 thousand reposts and about 5 thousand comments in just three hours. But why? What does the broken heart emoji mean? Is it because of the video of an incident inside India's team bus that went viral recently? In that video, Surya was seen talking to Arshdeep Singh animatedly after the third T20I against South Africa. Or does it have something to do with the recent developments at his IPL franchise, Mumbai Indians?

MI named Hardik Pandya as their captain, putting an end to Rohit Sharma's nearly 11-year-long journey as the franchise's leader. Both Surya and Hardik made their MI debuts under Rohit's captaincy. While Surya continues to be an integral part of MI along with Jasprit Bumrah and Ishan Kishan, the change in leadership is bound to have its effects.

Whatever may be the reason behind Surya's tweet, it surely caught the fans' attention. The majority of the reactions to that tweet, which had 3 million views in 3 hours, were related to the captaincy change in MI.