‘Golden tweet of 2016’ goes to Virat Kohli for defending girlfriend Anushka Sharma

New Delhi: Twitter just came out with their annual report on what were the most influential moments and hashtags of 2016 and remember Virat Kohli’s tweet slamming people for associating his impressive performance in the ICC T20 World Cup to his break up with Anushka Sharma. That tweet has been labelled as the ‘Golden tweet of 2016’ by Twitter.

Virat had to put his foot down to defend his love which was in rocky phase then.  The 28-year-old wrote on Twitter: "Shame on people for trolling Anushka Sharma non-stop. Have some compassion. She has always only given me positivity"

In case you don’t remember. Here is the now-famous tweet:

 

 

Shame on people for trolling @AnushkaSharma non-stop. Have some compassion. She has always only given me positivity pic.twitter.com/OBIMA2EZKu

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) March 28, 2016

 

The tweet on March 28th went viral with over 39,000 retweets and the cricketer was lauded for taking a stand for his girlfriend at a time when they weren’t in the best of terms.