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Sunil Gavaskar is working for Star Sports as an expert commentator in the current 17th season of IPL.
Former Team India captain Sunil Gavaskar has launched a scathing attack on IPL’s television broadcast partner Star Sports. The reason for this attack by Gavaskar was Virat Kohli. Sunil Gavaskar is working for Star Sports as an expert commentator in the current 17th season of IPL.
An interview of Virat Kohli is being shown repeatedly on IPL’s television broadcast partner, Star Sports, since last week. In that interview, former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Kohli had targeted critics over his strike rate. Now in response to this, Sunil Gavaskar said, ‘We have all played a bit of cricket, but we say what we see.’
What did Kohli say?
Kohli had said after the end of the match against Gujarat, ‘Many people underestimate my T20 strike rate and my ability to bat against spin. These are the same people who sit in the box and talk about anything but for me it’s more important to make the team win. If you’ve been playing like this for 15 years and making your team win, then I don’t see anything wrong with it.
You can say anything sitting within four walls but I don’t think that’s the right place to talk about the game. There is a big difference between playing on the ground and talking in the box.
Kohli had said, there is a lot of difference between playing on the ground and talking in the box.
Your star sports commentators are the ones who are asked questions – Gavaskar
Star Sports has televised Kohli being interviewed after the match many times so far. Gavaskar expressed his displeasure in Star Sports and said, ‘The post-match interview has been shown a dozen times on this channel. I hope Star Sports understands that when it is shown where the judges are, the judges are the commentators. Your star sports commentators are being asked.
I will be very disappointed if sport shows this again
He further said that commentators commented on Virat’s strike rate only when he was 118. If the batsman has batted at a strike rate of 118 and his strike rate remains the same for 14-15 overs and you want applause for him, then it is a bit strange.
But, for Star Sports to show that someone is degrading their own commentators, I’m not sure that’s a good thing. We’ve all played a little bit of cricket, not a lot of cricket, but we talk about what we see. So if Star Sports shows it again I will be very disappointed because it will raise questions for all of us commentators.
