Virender Sehwag a great player: Javed Akhtar

Mumbai, March 3: 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.  IANS