Mahela Jayawardene shuts up an MS Dhoni fan on Twitter with a savvy reply

It is a virtue of the greats to reply to critics with the subtlest of nuances and someone like Sri Lanka’s Jayawardene, who is known for his calm demeanour and classy shot selection, has been doing it for years on the field. However, thanks to the emergence of social media, we get to see his off-the-field talents from time to time.

He hasn’t lost his precision in striking back, it would seem, and the latest such instance came when the former Sri Lanka skipper posted a tweet congratulating Jamaica’s Usain Bolt after the last race of his career.

While most Twitteratis liked the sporting gesture from the 40-year-old, an unrelated reply, which is a very common thing in Twitter, sprung up from someone, who seemed to be a Mahendra Singh Dhoni fan.

The lucky guy got Jayawardene’s attention with it and he wasn’t to going to let go of such a chance. Jayawardene’s reply pretty much shut him up.

Jayawardene is on Twitter for long now, but given the composed gentleman that he always has been, people have always found it difficult to get under his skin. A perfect example of that would be-