<img title="Sehwag at the IPL Auction venue in Bangalore on Monday" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2017/feb/sehwag-iplauction.jpg" alt="Sehwag at the IPL Auction venue in Bangalore on Monday" />Former King&rsquo;s XI Punjab team mentor and current Head of Cricket Operations and Brand Ambassador&nbsp;Virender Sehwag during the IPL Auction 2017 in Bengaluru on Monday. Pic/PTI
Former India opener Virender Sehwag was known for his explosive batting during his heydays. He is now known for his dsiplays of wit in 140 characters or less, quite like the T20 format in cricket.
Viru paaji, who was recently appointed the Head of Cricket Operations and Brand Ambassador of IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab, started a new innings on Monday when he came to the IPL Players Auction 2017 as a shopper.
Now, that's strange since a couple of days prior to the Auction, Sehwag had suggested in a tweet that marriage was all about the husband working and wife shopping.
He though was careful to also make it clear that his wife, Aarti, did both -- shopped and worked.
<img title="Virender Sehwag and his wife Aarti Sehwag" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2017/feb/sehwag-wife-aarti.jpg" alt="Virender Sehwag and his wife Aarti Sehwag" width="670" height="449" /> Virender Sehwag and his wife Aarti Sehwag
But within 48 hours, he had to hit a reverse sweep off his own bowling as he found himself in the role of a shopper. But the 'Nawab of Najafgarh and Twitter' was sporting enough to take a dig at himself.
AT THE IPL AUCTION 2017&nbsp;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
With two of my favourate batsmen, The demolition man Sehwag and Diamond wrists Laxman . <a href="https://t.co/rjRElGTSh2">pic.twitter.com/rjRElGTSh2</a>
&mdash; J Arun Kumar (@arunonline1975) <a href="https://twitter.com/arunonline1975/status/833641560101097473">February 20, 2017</a></blockquote>
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He tweeted that at the IPL Auction, it was he who was doing the shopping, while the owners did all the work. He then punned on the word workshop, with the allusion to the IPL Owners' Workshop being equal parts work and shopping.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Today in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IPLAuction?src=hash">#IPLAuction</a> , owners had to work and Sehwag shop. Enjoyed the shopping and looks like a good WorkShop . <a href="https://t.co/DW9eT9bVqU">https://t.co/DW9eT9bVqU</a>
&mdash; Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) <a href="https://twitter.com/virendersehwag/status/833656792500621314">February 20, 2017</a></blockquote>
He had earlier suggested as a joke that in marriages wives shop, while husbands work. But also put the diusclaimer that his wife did both. &nbsp;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Marriage is a workshop where husband works and wife shops. But Biwi ji Rocks ! Works and Shops ! <a href="https://t.co/8W8WEr7wvd">pic.twitter.com/8W8WEr7wvd</a>
&mdash; Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) <a href="https://twitter.com/virendersehwag/status/832885114807971841">February 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
But the 38-year-old former Kings XI Punjab team mentor though didn't empty the purse and was judicious in his shopping. KXIP still had Rs13.9 crore in their purse at hte end of the day. They bought Eoin Morgan, Varun Aaron, Martin Guptill, Darren Sammy,&nbsp;T Natarajan,&nbsp;Matt Henry,&nbsp;Rahul Tewatia and Rinku Singh.&nbsp;
Kings XI Punjab (8 players for Rs 9.45 crore)
<img title="T NATARAJAN" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2017/feb/20natrajan.jpg" alt="T NATARAJAN" width="670" height="447" /> Tamil Nadu pacer T Natarajan was the most expensive buy for KXIP on Monday at Rs 3 crore
T Natarajan Rs 3 Crore Varun Aaron Rs 2.80 Crore Eoin Morgan Rs 2 Crore Matt Henry Rs 50 lakh Martin Guptill Rs 50 lakh Darren Sammy Rs 30 lakh Rahul Tewatia Rs 25 lakh Rinku Singh Rs 10 lakh
Players Retained: David Miller, Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, M Vijay, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla.

After joking that in marriage, a wife shops and husband works, Virender Sehwag hits himself out of the park on Twitter by celebrating his stint as shopper for KXIP at the IPL Auction 2017

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