Twitterati trolling Piers Morgan for thanking Virender Sehwag is shameful!

Virender Sehwag Virender Sehwag the Nawab of Twitterenjoys a huge fandom on the social media platform His witty oneliners and unique birthday wishes is always appreciatedEven his targets cricketers both past and present enjoy his wit But there has been one person who has repeatedly clashed with the 38yearold former cricketer on Twitter UK journalist Piers MorganIt 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 Indias Olympics medal tally an embarrassment and felt that the celebrations for just two medals that werent gold was over the top Morgan also tweeted that it was shameful that 12 billions couldnt produce a gold medallistViru immediately took up cudgels for India as he reminded Morgan of Englands lack of achievements in the field of cricket which the English had inventedThe 51yearold journalist then tried to bait Sehwag with a bet Morganrsquos nowdeleted tweet read mdash ldquoHi virendersehwag I bet you 1 million rupees to charity that England wins a ODI World Cup before India wins an Olympic Gold AcceptrdquoBut this time Sehwags legions of followers were there to correct Morgan and remind the Britisher that India had already won nine gold medalsSehwags online archnemesis then took to Twitter to correct the former cricketers spelling and got kicked by Indians for itSo it was nice when on New Years Eve after Sehwag asked his Twitter followers to write about their best moments with him in 2016 that Morgan replied with a thank you noteThe TV show host tweeted You got me trending in India for days amp 1000s of new followers Thanks matePiers MorganViru too buried the hatchet in style and responded with India has a big heart tweetNew Years is a time to forget the old and ring in the new But this wasnt the case with many Twitterati who decided to troll Morgan for thanking ViruThe 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 journalistWhile Morgan has been in the wrong several times and deservedly got brickbats on Twitter this wasnt one of those momentsAnd especially with Sehwag having talked about Indias 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 bygonesHeres Virus tweet on New Years Eve that started it allTweet the best moments you had with me this year How did I contribute to joy in your life Please share tweet screenshots moments u likedmdash Virender Sehwag virendersehwag December 31 2016Piers Morgan responded withYou got me trending in India for days amp 1000s of new followers Thanks mate httpstcoyc4bhL1Hwcmdash Piers Morgan piersmorgan December 31 2016Sehwag was graciousness personified in his responseCheers India has a big heart Enjoy httpstcoBEwgLQj3N8mdash Virender Sehwag virendersehwag December 31 2016But Indians couldnt let this opportunity slip by and trolled the Britisherpiersmorgan professional way of begging for trend amp followers virendersehwagmdash navaneethan r RNavaneethan03 December 31 2016piersmorgan virendersehwag India has big heart at Beggars like Umdash Ravi raviraj46364 December 31 2016piersmorgan Jesters r alwys welcome in Indiamdash Mohnish Patel mohnishpatel8 December 31 2016piersmorgan The number of followers you have does not make you better than anyone else Hitler had millions Jesus had 12mdash Mukund Karnani Mukund_Karnani January 1 2017piersmorgan is that the proper brit way of saying I am no good just by myself We understand U need help hence the shoot amp scoot attitudemdash IndiaFirst IndiaFirst1857 January 1 2017virendersehwag India gave Britain bread and butter from its throat for more than 150 years Twitter trend is nothing Enjoy piersmorganmdash Kshitij Sharma iitian_kshitij December 31 2016virendersehwag piersmorgan Dont mess with VIRU paaji bcz he is much more destroyer on Twitter then as a batsman mdash Sachin Tendulkar Sachin_lover December 31 2016virendersehwag we gave kohinoor to you so fans following is not big deal ethAcircAcircu00c2u009fAcircAcircu00c2u0098AcircAcircu00c2u0082 piersmorganmdash Jay Paul i_am_jaypaul December 31 2016virendersehwag piersmorgan we tolerated u for 300 years whats 1000 new followers compared to that if u want keep the England team theremdash GI7505 gi7505 December 31 2016