Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag engage in Twitter banter.
It's full on trolling war between two of the greatest openers of the cricketing world, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.
It all started with India's overwhelming 178-run victory against New Zealand in the second Test at the Eden Gardens and their rise to the top of ICC Test rankings. Just after the win, the master blaster took to Twitter to congratulate his juniors. He wrote, "A spectacular victory by Team INDIA & many congratulations on regaining the no 1 position in the world test cricket!! #INDvNZ."
Reacting to this, Viru, who is doing a commentary stint with the official broadcaster for this series, tried to pull Tendulkar's leg by saying, "Oh God ji, kabhi kabhi Commentators ko bhi encourage kar diya kijiye. Thoda Motivation mil jaayega."
Sachin, who usually doesn't engage in Twitter conversations, was game for it and replied, "Jiyo mere Lala....Tathaaaastuuuuu!!!"
However, little did he know that Sehwag would be right back at him with a killer tweet. "Aashirwad me bhi God ji , apni IPL team ke Maalik ke brand ka zikr karna nahi bhoolte. Sahi me, Duniya hila dete hain aap God ji," said the Nawab of Najafgarh referring to the 'Reliance Jio' network connection. Incidentally, Sachin's home franchise, Mumbai Indians is owned by Reliance Industries' Chairman Mukesh Ambani.
The little master then played it with a straight bat and gave a piece of mind to his former partner in crime by saying, "Woh to apni apni soch ki baat hai. Tumhari soch ki alag, meri spelling ki alag …" (That issue depends on one's own thinking. Your's thinking and my spelling are poles apart).
The fans are the only beneficiaries of this friendly banter as they are lapping it up like anything. We have to wait and see if Sehwag comes back with another reply or unusually ducks the issue.
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