Virender Sehwag trolls Pak political analyst who confused Neeraj Chopra with Ashish Nehra

Virender Sehwag has again shown he could be equally devastating on social media as he was on the cricket pitch in his playing years by trolling a Pakistani political analyst who confused India's Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra with former cricketer Ashish Nehra.

Zaid Hamid , who was lauding Pakistan javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem for his gold medal at the recent Commonwealth Games, had tweeted: "And what makes this victory even sweeter is the fact that this Pakistani athlete has destroyed Indian javelin throw hero Ashish Nehra. In the last competition, Ashish had defeated Arshad Nadeem. What a sweet revenge to come back."

Here is what his tweet was about. Hamid was talking about Neeraj Chopra. India's javelin thrower had finished ahead of Nadeem in their previous two encounters, including at the Tokyo Olympics where Chopra won gold. At the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Nadeem finished first with an Asian record, but Chopra wasn't participating due to injury.


While Twitter users in India sniggered at the strange mix-up of names, Sehwag, who played a lot of cricket together with Nehra both for the Delhi team and at the national level, went ahead and rubbed it right in.

"Chicha, Ashish Nehra is right now preparing for UK Prime Minister Elections. So Chill," Sehwag wrote with characteristic abandon, posting a screenshot of Hamid's tweet. The 'Ashish Nehra' in this case is obviously the Indian-origin Rishi Sunak, who is in the race to 10 Downing Street.

Hamid's rancorous post notwithstanding , Arshad Nadeem and Neeraj Chopra share great warmth and respect for each other. Both star athletes think highly of each other, and when Nadeem won the CWG gold, Chopra was among the first to rush in and congratulate on his Insta post.