Case Study: Virender Sehwag: New Innings on Twitter

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Virender Sehwag who is known to be one of the most aggressive opening batsmen of all time in the world of cricket. After his retirement from all formats of the game, he became active on social media platforms.

Sehwag on Twitter:

Virender Sehwag joined the Twitter in November 2009 with @virendersehwag as his twitter handle. Today he has more than 11 million twitter follower and he has become a very big celebrity on twitter. Sehwag’s sense of humor and wit is what made him popular among the people. He shares his thought on all the political and social issues of the country with his sense of humor. People are liking and sharing his tweets because he always speaks his mind and keeps people entertained with his funny and sarcastic comments.

Sehwag’s Tweets :

Sehwag is famous on the twitter for his funny birthday wishes on the twitter to his fellow cricketers here are few of them.

  1. This is what he tweeted while he wishing birthday to an Australian Player George Bailey.

  1.  His birthday wishes for his teammate Ishant Sharma was even funnier Where he made fun of his long hair and his height.

  1. Now check out his tweet on famous Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam’s birthday where he is remembering his iconic inning of 165 against South Africa.

Sehwag’s twitter battle with English journalist Piers Morgan has been in the news for a long time. It all started when Piers Morgan made fun of India’s performance in Olympics. He tweeted that “How a country of 1.2 billion countries celebrating just 2 medal wins.” and the tweet went viral to which Sehwag reminded him that how England has never won a Cricket world cup even after inventing the game.

This befitting reply by Sehwag is widely appreciated by the people and it went viral. Here are few more exchange of tweets between the two.

Sehwag does not shy away to make fun of himself also in one his tweets he made fun of how he got out on duck in both the innings of a match against Australia.

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