British journalist Piers Morgan's attempt to poke Virender Sehwag and India about our Olympic gold medals landed him in trouble for being factually wrong with the Twitterati taking the chance to 'teach' him
Get your facts right, Mr Piers Morgan or feel Indian Twitterati's wrath
British journalist Piers Morgan is at it again. And he is still failing at it.
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Morgan, who is known for his controversial Twitter posts, was on Tuesday night celebrating the fact that England scored a world record ODI total of 444 against Pakistan. Pakistan slumped to a humiliating 169-run defeat in the third ODI against England to lose the five-match series 0-3.
The TV anchor in his moment of celebration rekindled his war of words on Twitter with former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag. Morgan revived his taunt of India not having won a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
But wait! He didn't get his facts right.
Piers Morgan tweeted this and then had to delete it for being factually wrong
Sehwag had last time hit Morgan for a six with his reply or should we say clean bowled him, after all Viru is still an all-rounder, even it is on Twitter. Unable to let go, the 51-year-old jourtnalist tried to provoke Sehwag into another verbal duel. But this time hwe fell prey to the age-old problem of tweeting without checking,
Morgan’s last tweet – which has since been deleted – offered Sehwag a bet. Morgan’s now-deleted tweet read — “Hi @virendersehwag, I bet you 1 million rupees to charity that England wins a ODI World Cup before India wins an Olympic Gold. Accept?”
Indian Twitterati didn't waste time trolling him and letting him know where he had gone wrong.
We already have 9 golds so you better donate this 1 million to the queen so she can afford a Kohinoor of her own. https://t.co/33zHmiqrIT
— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) August 30, 2016
This is hilarious. An embarrassed @PiersMorgan deletes his tweet after realising that India already has 9 golds. pic.twitter.com/r2Y4CvXSPJ
— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) August 30, 2016
He posted a revised tweet with the correct information after deleting the original.
Hi @virendersehwag, I bet you 1 million rupees to charity that England wins a ODI World Cup before India wins another Olympic Gold. Accept?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 30, 2016
He continued egging Sehwag on...
Never known you to shirk a challenge, Legend....#OneMillionRupees
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 31, 2016
https://t.co/qXnBpVna2T
And Twitterati couldn't resist this opportunity of being able to 'teach' the Britisher...
@AsYouNotWish @piersmorgan You've had to delete a few tweets today Piers because of mistakes, you're slipping!! Why delete?
— Ben Jenkins (@benjenks) August 30, 2016
@piersmorgan @virendersehwag he is not shirking a challenge..he is just not sure if u wud end up deleting this tweet as well ðu00c2u009fu00c2u0098u00c2u0082ðu00c2u009fu00c2u0098u00c2u0082
— Swati (@SwatiT_) August 31, 2016
@MMobed786 @piersmorgan @virendersehwag never gonna happen pic.twitter.com/ZKLzVGMeY3
— RealEnergyEigenstate (@gamercoupleq8) August 31, 2016
@MMobed786 @piersmorgan @virendersehwag never gonna happen pic.twitter.com/ZKLzVGMeY3
— RealEnergyEigenstate (@gamercoupleq8) August 31, 2016
.@piersmorgan Okay, this is fine but first donate the 9 million that you lost after the first tweet @virendersehwag pic.twitter.com/TvAAbbCQgu
— Sand-d Singh (@Sand_In_Deed) August 30, 2016
Dear @piersmorgan, I urge u 2 learn Hindi just 2 understand this tweet. Would be ur most worthwhile endeavour ever. pic.twitter.com/ucxmgVTsQq
— Fierce Murugan (@Roflindian) August 31, 2016
#PiersMorgan #virendrasehwag once again.... pic.twitter.com/xXLXaUGLqn
— Dr. Nitish Singh (@DrNitishSingh) August 31, 2016
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