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Post-retirement from international cricket, Virender Sehwag is mostly in the news due to his entertaining tweets and comments.
From engaging with his fellow cricketers in a hilarious manner to having banter with Piers Morgan on Twitter, Sehwag has gained more fans after his retirement than he did when in action.
Looking at Sehwag’s habits, there is always a fear that he might emerge as the next Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Sidhu isn’t seen as a cricket expert, hardly makes comments on the game in public and perhaps people would be bored if he did so. Instead, he entertains by spelling out ‘Shayaris’ in public rallies and on television, causing many to laugh at the top of their lungs.
Just like that, Sehwag, even during live commentary in an international game, continues with his witty one-liners. Star Sports, the official sponsor of India-Australia series, even started a trend during the first ODI and they asked people to suggest their one-liners for Viru. Within a few minutes, #Virupanti became one of the top trends in India.
A few days back, Sehwag brought back the head coach controversy when he, during a chat with India TV, said that he couldn’t become the coach of the Indian cricket team due having to no “setting” in the BCCI.
Those who can understand the Hindi would immediately know that Sehwag blamed the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) for him losing the race. The committee consists of players with whom Sehwag played throughout his career.
Starting from his opening partner and his dear friend, Sachin Tendulkar, whom he copied during his early days and still calls him the god of cricket. The second member of the jury is Sourav Ganguly, who left his opening slot to let Sehwag open the innings. And the third member is VVS Laxman, who Sehwag himself calls as Very Very Special Laxman. Incidentally, Laxman and Sehwag are sharing mic during the ongoing Australia-India series.
The biggest question that arises is, if Sehwag was so upset with the snub, then why he didn’t take up the matter there and then? Why didn’t he question the committee at the same time, like Ravi Shastri – the current head coach – did last year when he was replaced by Anil Kumble?
It looked like Sehwag had forgotten the matter, as he posted some vacation pictures a couple of days after he was not selected, but now it’s clear that he wanted to say everything but didn’t get an opportunity to do so.
“Look, I couldn’t become the coach because I didn’t have any setting [common slang for association with decision-makers] with those who were in power of appointing the coach,” Sehwag said.
Being such a senior player, it was his responsibility to speak on the matter with utmost responsibility but Sehwag chose the other way, the commonly chosen one.
Anyone who followed the race to head coach contest assumed Shastri was one of the favourites for the position as he reportedly had the backing of skipper Virat Kohli and committee member Tendulkar, but no one uttered a word, neither from the board nor from the outside world.
Sehwag also decided to keep his finger on his lips at that time. Meanwhile, he continued to let his tweets talk, but not regarding that matter.
It’s not the first recent controversy surrounding the Indian cricket team. Last year, it was Shastri who took on Sourav Ganguly – one of the members of the committee – and the matter went from bad to worse when Ganguly said that Shastri was living in a fool’s world. The BCCI had to intervene in the matter and then only these two decided to bury the hatchet.
The biggest irony is that Shastri, who once had a face-off with one of the members of the committee, made his comeback whereas Sehwag, who spent most of his time with three members of the committee, was dumped.
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