Following India’s victory over Pakistan in the ICC Champions Trophy clash on February 23, 2025, a set of images featuring cricketer Mohammad Shami and tennis star Sania Mirza has gone viral on social media. The claim suggests that Sania Mirza met Shami after India’s victory.
The caption with the pictures in Hindi reads: पाकिस्तान को हराने के बाद मोहम्मद समीर सानिया मिर्जा से मिलने पहुंचे (English version: “After defeating Pakistan, Mohammad Sameer went to meet Sania Mirza”)
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral pictures, and found them to be AI-generated.
A Reverse Image Search did not yield any credible media reports or official posts from either Shami or Sania Mirza featuring these images. The absence of verifiable sources raises red flags about their authenticity.
At first glance, the pictures may seem realistic, but a closer look reveals multiple tell-tale signs of AI manipulation such as unnatural facial expressions that lack fluidity, oddly blended hands with unnatural alignment and lighting and shadow inconsistencies around faces.
To further verify, NewsMobile ran the images through AI detection tools — Verifye and Hive Moderation — both of which confirmed that the images were AI-generated.
So in conclusion, we can say that these images have been digitally created.
