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Gavaskar, who is a Sports Star pundit, also criticized the broadcaster for repeatedly airing the clip of Kohli’s comments “half a dozen times”. “The commentators only investigated when his strike rate Was 118…I don’t watch too many games, so I don’t know what the other commentators said. But if you come in and open (the bat) and then you have a strike of 118 when you get out on 14 or 15, I mean, if you want applause for that, it’s a bit different,” Gavaskar said in Star.Sports.
“All these guys talking about ‘Oh we don’t care about outside noise’. Acha! So why are you answering any outside noise or whatever?” he added.
Coming out in support of Kohli, Akram told Sportkada: “What kind of criticism does he get? That his team is losing? If the guy scores 100 at a strike rate of 150, is that wrong? If the team was winning, it wouldn’t be winning. Kohli was under pressure when he was captain, and he is under pressure even Now he scores, but one player cannot win.
“Criticizing him unnecessarily… it’s unfair. In the long run, Kohli has a lot of cricket left (in him). RCB will have to think about why their performances have been so inconsistent even after 16 years (in the IPL). Their batting. Still fine , but their bullets are weak,” Akram said.
Gawker’s comments came in response to Kohli being questioned by cricket experts for making observations about his strike rate in T20 cricket.
“No really, all the people who talk about strike rates and I don’t play good spin are the ones who talk about those things. For me, it’s about winning games for the team and there’s a reason why you’ve done it for 15 years, you’ve done it day in and day out, you’ve won games For your teams, I’m not sure if you haven’t been in that situation yourself, to sit and talk about the game in the box,” Kohli said.
“As far as I’m concerned, people can talk about their assumptions every day, but those who have done it every day, they know what’s going on and it’s kind of a muscle memory for me now.”
During RCB’s win over Gujarat Titans in the IPL on Saturday, Kohli reclaimed the Orange Cap surpassing Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad’s 509 runs. Kohli has now scored 542 runs in 11 matches. His current strike rate is 148.09.
