Virender Sehwag-Piers Morgan Twitter war intensifies; trolls join the conversation

The Twitter war between former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag and British journalist Piers Morgan has reached to new level, with the latter striking back after a brief lull.

The Twitter war between former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag and British journalist Piers Morgan has reached to a new level, with the latter striking back after a brief lull. On Wednesday, Morgan tweeted once again after it appeared that the Rio 2016 controversy had died a natural death. But rekindling it once again, Morgan tweeted a factually incorrect tweet addressing to Sehwag. ALSO READ: Piers Morgan faces heat from Virender Sehwag following sarcastic tweet on India’s Rio Olympics 2016 celebration

In tweeting this, Morgan showed is ignorance towards India’s 9 Gold medals in Olympics history (8 by hockey team and 1 by Abhinav Bindra) as he clearly ignored it by mentioning ‘an Olympics Gold’. However, after Indian Twitter backlash and on realising his mistake, he immediately deleted it and replaced it with a new tweet where he replaced ‘an’ with another. He wrote:

Hi @virendersehwag, I bet you 1 million rupees to charity that England wins a ODI World Cup before India wins another Olympic Gold. Accept?

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 30, 2016

 

He challenged Sehwag by betting a million rupees to charity on England winning an ODI World Cup before India winning another Olympic Gold. While Sehwag did not respond to it directly, the Indian Twitter trolls did not take it too kindly and came up with hilarious replies. Check some of them here:

@VirenderrSehwag @piersmorgan don’t bark pic.twitter.com/FBwCqjDSAP

— அனிதா ♡ (@anithatalks) August 31, 2016

@piersmorgan @virendersehwag btw you guys r so poor that you always use African,Irish,Scottish players. ENG dont even create a cricketer lol

— JeetღSG’s Albeliya™ (@Shreyanjeet_SN) August 30, 2016

 

@piersmorgan @virendersehwag haha..Google it first before post anything.. ‘from an olympic Gold’ to ‘another olympic Gold’

— Dinku (@Dinku_cfc) August 30, 2016

 

.@piersmorgan Okay, this is fine but first donate the 9 million that you lost after the first tweet @virendersehwag pic.twitter.com/TvAAbbCQgu — Sand-d Singh (@Sand_In_Deed) August 30, 2016

 

Hey @piersmorgan 1 million rupees is just 10 lakhs in our parlance. That’s peanuts! Increase your bid for @virendersehwag to even consider.

— SIDAARRTH SHINDE (@sidaarrthshinde) August 30, 2016

 

.@piersmorgan चिकन रोल खाने का शौक है इसका मतलब ये नहीं की तू रोज़ अपना पिछवाड़ा तवे पे ही रख दे @virendersehwag pic.twitter.com/aZYTfePvj9 — Diwakar. (@DiwakarKothari_) August 30, 2016

 

@piersmorgan we already give millions in charity every year by buying many England players in IPL just to make them sit on bench.

— Manoj Harishchandre (@SirJad1) August 30, 2016

 

The man himself replied in a subtle, cheeky manner, not suggesting if it was Morgan he was taking a dig at. He wrote:

Some people’s fortune is so bad, that
Apply Apply,
But No Reply ..
Hahahaha

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 31, 2016

The war became interesting from here as the motor-mouth Morgan replied:

Never known you to shirk a challenge, Legend….#OneMillionRupees
https://t.co/qXnBpVna2T

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 31, 2016

 

Let’s see where this ends.

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