HILARIOUS! Virender Sehwag rubs salt on Shobhaa De's wounds after Sakshi Malik wins bronze

New Delhi: Virender Sehwag's second innings has so far been as interesting as his first.

The former India opener has taken to Twitter like a fish to water. His trademark so far has been the customized birthday wishes.

Viru wishes members of the cricket and sports fraternities in his inimitable style.

Humor is the key ingredient of Viru's tweets, which have taken the micro-blogging site by storm.

On Thursday, he decided to troll columnist and author Shobhaa De after Haryana's Sakshi Malik won a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics.

De had earlier criticized the Indian Olympic Games' contingent, terming its trip to Rio as a 'waste of money and opportunity'.

She came under severe criticism for that remark from the public as well as athletes -  past and present.

After the news of India winning its first medal in Rio trickled in, Viru trolled De in typical style after a parody account of his posted this tweet.

#SakshiMalik ke gale me medal kitna "Sobha De" raha hai na !!! #HappyRakshaBandhan pic.twitter.com/5qnN0tbD4y

— Virender Sehwag (@Virendrsehwag) August 18, 2016

Bilkul , isliye Shobha Na De aise kaam nahi karne chahiye https://t.co/LDyEPGRQI1

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 18, 2016

Viru's fans totally enjoyed that. Here are some reactions...

@Virendrsehwag mast...Virender Sehwag kept it simple and attacking be it Test, One Day, T20, Commentary or Tweet

— Gautam Kashyap (@gkash77) August 18, 2016

@Virendrsehwag Haha! Viru bhai you only deal in sixes

— Maha Jhelu (@Jhelu_tweet) August 18, 2016

@Virendrsehwag hahaha...paaji...one of the greatest test batsman to ho hi ab greatest manufacturer of tweets bhi ban gaye..wah.

— Kamal K (@dtruthisouthere) August 18, 2016

Interestingly, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan too praised Sehwag for his sense of humor.

hahaha .. Viru ji .. aapka sense of humour ne ek aur sixer maar diya Stadium ke bahar !! https://t.co/gsmFV4dPb6

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 18, 2016