Sanjay Manjrekar faces the wrath of Twitterati for supporting Piers Morgan

British journalist, Piers Morgan was one of the most trending individuals on the Twitter a couple of days ago after he tweeted about India celebrating the two medals they won in the Rio Olympics and how that wasn’t the best idea.

Piers Morgan was on the receiving end of the brunt of critics and soon former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag joined the conversation in support of the Indian fans and the plot thickened.

One of Morgan’s tweets read: “If India can produce a batsman as brilliant as @sachin_rt then it can produce Gold medal-winning Olympians. Needs investment & focus.”

While another one read: “Dear Indian Twitter, @sachin_rt only follows 77 people & I am one of them. Do the maths. #Winners”.

Dear Indian Twitter, @sachin_rt only follows 77 people & I am one of them. Do the maths. #Winners

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016

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Virender Sehwag had an epic reply to both the tweets saying, “We cherish every small happiness’, But Eng who invented Cricket,&yet2win a WC,still continue to play WC. Embarrassing?”

https://twitter.com/virenderswag/status/768438573875855361

There were a lot of tweets from the Indian twitter users as they launched an attack on Morgan. However, former Indian cricketer and commentator Sanjay Manjrekar backed him and tweeted: “Instead of lashing back at those who take a dig at our Olympic performance, introspection is a better response. Improvement is then possible,”

Instead of lashing back at those who take a dig at our olympic performance, introspection is a better response.Improvement is then possible.

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) August 26, 2016

Manjrekar told the fans that introspection is a better response than lashing out at anyone who had a go at India’s performance at the Rio Olympics, where the 118-member contingent returned with just 2 medals. His advice didn’t go down well with the trollers who had by then shot an array of posts against Morgan trying to put him down. Sanjay fell in their range of fire as well and here is the response he got for his tweet.

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.@sanjaymanjrekar Past&present contributions IndianCivilization's made goFar beyond what OlympicMedals can bring #SiliconValley Mahabharatta

— iqbal theba (@iqbaltheba) August 26, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar but than your commentary too never improved! Ever wondered why?

— Alok (@dch4alok) August 26, 2016

.@sanjaymanjrekar aap abhi woe kar rahe ho jiske liye aap famous ho??

— Naageshwar (@KulluKaali) August 26, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar we all know what the problem is, we don't need another jibe to be told what the issue is.

— jay (@mehta_jay27) August 26, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar why didn't you introspect about your career when it was going to dogs. You spent all your life hating sachin and India

— Jaydeep Bapat (@Jaydeep_Bapat) August 26, 2016

@sanjaymanjrekar we won the cricket WC after 50 plus years after we started playing! How can you expect to win without putting in time?

— Dugga100 (@Dugga100) August 26, 2016