Gujarat Lions owner Keshav Bansal. (Source; Twitter)

Ever since Keshav Bansal took over the Gujarat Lions side in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the young Indian has been in the news. He has emerged as an idol for youngsters in India after becoming the youngest IPL owner. However, on 26th June Keshav Bansal made a big goof up on Twitter and got trolled mercilessly for it on the micro-blogging website. In what came as a shocker for many, Keshav Bansal congratulated former Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri for becoming the fourth run-scorer in international football. His tweet read: “Let’s take a moment to talk about @chetrisunil11, the Indian footballer who has been ranked 4th in the world for scoring the highest runs.”

Recently, India had defeated Kyrgyzstan 1-0 in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifier in Bangalore on June 13 as Sunil Chhetri found the net for the men in blue. The skipper produced a brilliant goal in the 69th minute of the contest and take his side to a win. With this goal, Chhetri passed England’s Wayne Rooney to become the fourth-highest goal scorer in international football. Keshav Bansal wanted to congratulate Chhetri for that but ended up typing ‘runs’. Twitterati were clearly not impressed and this is how they responded:

So Sunil Chetri is a secret cricketer as well.@KeshavBansal08 tweeted about this.

???????????????? pic.twitter.com/7TRbOd0HZK — anshul chavhan (@anshul_chavhan) June 27, 2017

Even though @KeshavBansal08 deleted his tweet, here is the screenshot for the same! You just cannot do this to our captain! @IndianFootball pic.twitter.com/580ta2yBST — Shubhang Malik (@TheUnitedGoalie) June 26, 2017

Are Wah.

Sunil Chetri you play cricket as well. Keshav Bansal just tweeted.#Legend — anshul chavhan (@anshul_chavhan) June 27, 2017

@KeshavBansal08 what about Chettri the run machine ???????? — Gunjan Gupta (@GunjanG19423367) June 26, 2017

Aaaand @KeshavBansal08 has finally deleted the “runs” tweet. But that hasn’t really erased it, obviously. #indianfootball pic.twitter.com/HtAgQRfVu8 — Chiranjit Ojha (@ChiranjitOjha) June 26, 2017

Probably then he might say “Brendon McCullum with a brilliant solo goal!” — Shubhang Malik (@TheUnitedGoalie) June 26, 2017

This was Sunil Chhetri’s 54th goal for India and he is now only behind Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Clint Dempsey in the list of active international players with most goals. Chhetri is also the leading goal scorer for India. Later, Bansal deleted his tweet.