Twitterati trolling Piers Morgan for thanking Virender Sehwag is shameful!

Twitterati trolling Piers Morgan for thanking Virender Sehwag is shameful!

Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag, the 'Nawab of Twitter', enjoys a huge fandom on the social media platform. His witty one-liners and unique birthday wishes is always appreciated.

Even his 'targets' -- cricketers, both past and present -- enjoy his wit. But there has been one person who has repeatedly clashed with the 38-year-old former cricketer on Twitter -- UK journalist Piers Morgan.

It all started in August 2016, when Morgan mocked the 'wild celebrations' in India for winning two medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics -- badminton star PV Sindhu and wrestling ace Sakshi Malik. The TV host made fun of India and Indians for not producing gold medallists. He termed India's Olympics medal tally an embarrassment and felt that the celebrations for just two medals that weren't gold was over the top. Morgan also tweeted that it was 'shameful' that 1.2 billions couldn't produce a gold medallist.

Viru immediately took up cudgels for India as he reminded Morgan of England's lack of achievements in the field of cricket, which the English had invented.

The 51-year-old journalist then tried to bait Sehwag with a bet. Morgan's now-deleted tweet read - "Hi @virendersehwag, I bet you 1 million rupees to charity that England wins a ODI World Cup before India wins an Olympic Gold. Accept?"

But this time Sehwag's legions of followers were there to 'correct' Morgan and remind the Britisher that India had already won nine gold medals.

Sehwag's 'online arch-nemesis' then took to Twitter to 'correct' the former cricketer's spelling and got kicked by Indians for it.

So it was nice when on New Year's Eve after Sehwag asked his Twitter followers to write about their best moments with him in 2016 that Morgan replied with a 'thank you note'.

The TV show host tweeted, "You got me trending in India for days & 1000s of new followers. Thanks mate."

Piers Morgan

Viru too buried the hatchet in style and responded with 'India has a big heart' tweet.

New Year's is a time to forget the old and ring in the new. But this wasn't the case with many Twitterati who decided to troll Morgan for thanking Viru.

The fact that both Sehwag and Morgan were conducting a polite conversation and hoping to end the year on a positive note was not to their liking and they had to bring out the knives and target the TV journalist.

While Morgan has been in the wrong several times and deservedly got brickbats on Twitter, this wasn't one of those moments.

And, especially, with Sehwag having talked about India's generosity, the attack on Morgan insulted both the 'Nawab of Twitter' and 'India'. And also made Sehwag out to be a liar since Indians were not being generous and letting bygones be bygones.

Here's Viru's tweet on New Year's Eve that started it all:

Piers Morgan responded with:

Sehwag was graciousness personified in his response:

But Indians couldn't let this opportunity slip by and trolled the Britisher: