Virender Sehwag is truly one of a kind. The swashbuckling former Indian opener redefined the art of opening the batting with his murderous stroke play. During his prime, his hand-eye coordination was something to wonder at. And the uncomplicated way he looked at batting and at life in general endeared him to almost everyone.

In fact, ever since his retirement, the world has woken up to Sehwag’s other talents. Specifically, his love for singing. It was Suresh Raina who first informed the world about the Nawab of Najagharh’s secret to success – the Delhi dasher was apaprently singing Kishore Kumar songs on the way to his record-breaking 219 in a ODI against West Indies in 2011.

Then the world got to hear it for themselves. At the All-Stars tournament held in the United States last year, Sehwag was nonchalantly singing a popular Hindi song while smashing former South African great Allan Donald for a six.

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But as it turns out, Viru definitely has a post-cricket career as a Twitter comic artist. Because, he finds the most innovative ways to wish people on their birthday.

Here he is, giving James Anderson a fair indicator of his popularity in India.

Then he thanked singer Sonu Nigam who had unknowingly helped him craft a masterpiece.

But he needs a little bit more work on those puns.

Ok, maybe, not a little.

Offered without comment.

He’s also appeared on India’s questionably favourite comedy show, Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma in 2004, with the normally staid Sunil Gavaskar.

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It didn’t long for Indian Twitteratti though to speculate on the man whose path Virender Singh was following:

So is that the Nawab of Najafgarh’s cunning new plan? To create his own brand of “Sehwag-isms”? And who knows, just like Navjot Singh Sidhu was rewarded with a Rajya Sabha seat (from which he has currently resigned), we could even see Sehwag the politician.

But for now, let him work a little bit more on those puns.