Virender Sehwag, Brett Lee’s comments on Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma’s Akaay post garners attention

Congratulatory messages started pouring in the moment Virat Kohli, on Tuesday, took to Instagram to announce the birth of his second child.

Kohli said his wife, the Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma, delivered a baby boy last Thursday. They named the boy Akaay. The couple already have a daughter named Vamika.

“With abundant happiness and our hearts full of love, we are pleased to inform everyone that on 15th February, we welcomed our baby boy Akaay and Vamika’s little brother into this world,” Kohli said on Instagram. “We seek your blessings and good wishes in this beautiful time in our lives. We request you to kindly respect our privacy at this time,” he added late Tuesday.

Kohli’s Instagram post garnered 8.2 million likes and 377 thousand likes by Wednesday morning. Among those who commented on Kohli’s post were former India cricketer Virender Sehwag, former England batter Kevin Pietersen, and former Australia pacer Brett Lee.

“Many congratulations Virat,” commented Sehwag with a heart emoji. The former India opener’s congratulatory message garnered a lot of attention. At the time of writing this, Sehwag’s comment had close to 20,000 likes and 60 replies. It was one of the most popular threads in the entire post.

Lee and Pietersen’s comments were not too far behind. The former England captain’s “The best” comment got close to 3000 likes while Lee’s congratulations got about 6000 interested.