Published: Oct 23, 2016, 01:17 PM (IST)
Edited: Oct 23, 2016, 01:20 PM (IST)
India’s title win in the final of the third Kabaddi World Cup on Saturday against Iran brought the two old adversaries at loggerheads once again. We are talking about the ‘Nawab of Twitter’ Virender Sehwag and British journalist Piers Morgan. The two have had quite a tumultuous past of late. It all started during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games when Morgan lashed out at Indian public for celebrating a mere two medals. This attracted a lot of criticism for him from across the world, especially from Indian Diaspora. Outspoken cricketer Sehwag also took him to task with a series of tweets commenting on England’s poor record in cricket despite being its inventor.
Just when it seemed that the war was dying down, Sehwag flared it up once again during the ongoing Kabaddi World Cup 2016, when England were ousted from the tournament. His sarcastic tweet attracted Morgan’s comment as Sehwag had misspelled the word lose as ‘loose’. However, things did not end here, as the most dramatic part in this sequence was yet to come. On Sunday evening, when India beat Iran in the final of the third Kabaddi World Cup, an ecstatic Sehwag once again made a cutting remark against England. He took to his official Twitter handle to praise India and comment on England as he wrote: “India invented Kabaddi & r World Champs for the 8th time.Elsewhere some country invented Cricket & r yet only good in correcting typos. #INDvIRN”
India invented Kabaddi & r World Champs for 8th time.Elsewhere some country invented Cricket & r yet only good in correcting typos.#INDvIRN pic.twitter.com/IG9fucAMMo
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) October 22, 2016
Although India, the inventors of Kabaddi, won the Kabaddi World Cup for the third consecutive time, this was actually the first time that the coverage of the tournament reached millions across the globe. Morgan, took offence to the tweet and responded in the following manner:
Mate, we invented Darts & Curling but I wouldn’t boast about being ‘World Champions’ at them. https://t.co/4PIlEKubpD
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 22, 2016
However, Morgan did not stop at it. He refused to consider Kabaddi as a sport and went on to tweet:
Kabaddi’s not really a sport, @virendersehwag – it’s just a load of grown men running around slapping each other.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 22, 2016
Sehwag has not yet responded to the tweet and his followers are waiting with baited breath for him to come up with a reply.
