Piers Morgan attacks Virender Sehwag, takes a dig at India’s performance at Olympics once again
Sep 3, 2016 at 10:04 PM
The war on Twitter between former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag and British journalist Piers Morgan just keeps on getting longer. It all started when Morgan took a dig at India’s performance at the Rio Olympics. The journalist took to Twitter to post a comment on India huge celebrations over the Olympic medals and said that the celebrations were embarrassing considering how India had only two medals from Rio despite having a population well over 1 billion. He also said that it was a shame that India couldn’t manage even a single gold medal at Rio.
Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that? https://t.co/FYSBM7ErAf
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
1,200,000,000 people and not a single Gold medal at the Olympics?
Come on India, this is shameful.
Put the bunting away & get training.— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
The journalist received a lot of flak for his remarks and Sehwag led India’s reply. Turning the joke on Morgan, Sehwag asked Morgan how embarrassing it was to see his country’s national team fail to win the ODI World Cup despite being the pioneer of the game.
We cherish every small happiness',
But Eng who invented Cricket,&yet2win a WC,still continue to playWC.Embarrassing? https://t.co/0mzP4Ro8H9— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 24, 2016
The war of tweets continued and then on August 3, Sehwag posted another tweet claiming that he was invited by journalist Arnab Goswami to come and air his views on “that British guy” during his show The NewsHour. But the Nawab of Najafgarh said that the “guy” doesn’t deserve any airtime and refused the proposal.
Arnab Goswami wants me to speak on that British guys views on India on NewsHour,but that man doesnt deserve any airtime,hence I have denied
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) September 2, 2016
Replying to this tweet, Morgan once again took a dig at India’s performance in the Olympics. He said that Sehwag refused the proposal to talk on the show only because he had nothing to defend India’s poor performance at the Olympics.
You mean you bottled it. I would too if I had to defend India's Olympic record. 😢 https://t.co/7KKkCHcJPF
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 2, 2016