Australia will be taking on New Zealand in the final of the ICC men’s T20 World Cup on November 14, 2021. The match will be played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai. The tie will be played between first-time finalists. While Australia recorded a 5-wicket over Pakistan in a thriller, New Zealand beat England by 5 wickets against England in an enthralling contest.

Hyping up the final, Anand Mahindra retweeted a BBC story’s link and captioned it as “Has the Penguin just made a forecast about who is going to win the #WorldCupT20?”

The penguin story is about a rare Antarctic penguin that accidentally swam 3,000 kms and found itself on a New Zealand shore.

The Adelie penguin was found looking clueless on the coast. One of the first local residents, Harry Singh, spotted him roaming sad and lonely. He initially thought that it was a ‘soft toy’. The locals, affectionately, named him Pingu.

This is the 3rd recorded incident of an Adelie penguin being recovered on New Zealand’s coast. The other two incidents happened in 1993 and 1962.

“First I thought it (was) a soft toy, suddenly the penguin moved his head , so I realized it was real,” BBC quoted Harry as saying.

Harry recorded a video and uploaded it on his Facebook page. In the video, the penguin appears to be lost and alone.

“It did not move for one hour… and [looked] exhausted” he added. He then called the penguin rescuers. He was concerned that the animal was got getting into the water, making him a target for other animals.

“We did not want it to end up in a dog’s or cat’s stomach,” he said.

Experts say that Adélie spottings remain rare in New Zealand.

“I think if we started getting annual arrivals of Adélie penguins, we’d go actually, something’s changed in the ocean that we need to understand,” Otago University zoology professor Philip Seddon told news site The Guardian.

“More studies will give us more understanding where penguins go, what they do, what the population trends are like – they’re going to tell us something about the health of that marine ecosystem in general.”