Virender Sehwag a great player: Javed Akhtar

Mumbai March 3 (IANS) Renowned poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar who earlier criticised former cricketer Virender Sehwag for his comments on Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur has called him a great player and said he was retracting his harsh comments.

Gurmehar is in the eye of a storm over her stance against student outfit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

Since Sehwag undoubtedly a great player has clarified he was just being facetious and is not anti-Gurmehar I take back my rather harsh words Akhtar posted on Twitter on Thursday night.

Akhtar earlier called Sehwag a hardly literate player indirectly after the cricketer trolled Gurmehar.

Kaur a student of Delhi s Lady Shri Ram College had posted on Facebook a photograph of herself holding a placard that read: I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me following last week s violence in Ramjas College in Delhi University.

The post went viral online. She also held a poster saying Pakistan did not kill my dad war killed him .

Following this Sehwag on February 26 posted his image holding a placard which read: I did not score two triple centuries my bat did and said: Bat me hai Dum! Bharat Jaisi Jagah Nahi (Bat has power! no place like India).

Akhtar didn t seem to have liked Sehwag s post and tweeted: If a hardly literate player or a wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr it s understandable but what s wrong with some educated folks.

--IANS
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