India held on to the T20 World Cup trophy by defeating Pakistan in the finals in Bangalore. With this win, the Indian team added another jewel to their crown and proved that a strong will reaps great rewards.

Following the win, the Indian team received a lot of love on social media for winning the world cup by a huge margin over Pakistan (India defeated Pakistan by 9 wickets) but one of those congratulatory tweets by Sehwag stirred up a storm for being insensitive.

Here’s what Sehwag tweeted after the historic win:

Congratulations to our #OtherMenInBlue on winning the T20 World Cup for the Blind. They have lit up smiles for a billion people. pic.twitter.com/sEZiz2mXxU

This evoked a fierce reaction from the captain of our team, Ajay Reddy who said, “We wear the same blue jersey, represent the same tri-colour and play with equal pride and passion then why term us as ‘other’? It is appreciable that he congratulated us but then we are no others. We too are the men in blue.”

Sehwag, however, cannot be blamed for using the term ‘other’ because it was the official hash tag used for the campaign.

. @GauravPandhi Better do some research before commenting.But research &media/you don't go hand in hand.It is their official campaign theme. pic.twitter.com/LplsoeZATf

While Ajay Reddy is right in saying that it’s degrading to label the team as the ‘other men in blue’, we as a community need to change our attitude towards the differently-abled before pointing our fingers towards a single person.