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All you need to know about the Sunil Gavaskar vs Virat Kohli war of words involving Star Sports in IPL 2024
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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“All these guys talk about, ‘oh we don’t care about outside noise’. Then why are you replying to any outside noise or whatever it is. We all played a bit of cricket, not a lot of cricket. We don’t have agendas. We speak about what we see. We don’t necessarily have any likes and dislikes. Even if we have likes and dislikes, we actually speak on what is happening,” said Gavaskar about Kohli.
Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar has hit out at Virat Kohli for calling out commentators over criticising his strike rate in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. Kohli had lashed out at people talking about his scoring rate after Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) cruised to a win against the Gujarat Titans (GT) in Ahmedabad last week. Apparently, official broadcaster Star Sports played that clip multiple times, much to the dismay of Gavaskar.
“All these guys talk about, ‘oh we don’t care about outside noise’. Then why are you replying to any outside noise or whatever it is. We all played a bit of cricket, not a lot of cricket. We don’t have agendas. We speak about what we see. We don’t necessarily have any likes and dislikes. Even if we have likes and dislikes, we actually speak on what is happening,” said Gavaskar.
He added, “I hope Star Sports realises that when that clip is shown, questioning the critics, the critics are your own commentators. For you to show the person belittling your own commentators, I’m not sure that’s a great thing. You need to realise you have shown it enough times, everybody’s got the message. I would be very disappointed if you show it once more.”
🚨 Sunil Gavaskar hits out at Star Sports on Star Sports.
“All these guys talk about, ‘we don’t care about outside noise.’ Then why are you replying to any outside noise or whatever it is. We all played a bit of cricket, not a lot of cricket. We don’t have agendas. We speak… pic.twitter.com/LplT7b7Kf5
— Suraj Balakrishnan (@SurajBala) May 4, 2024
What did Virat say about the commentators?
RCB chased down 201 in 16 overs against the home team previous week, with Kohli remaining unbeaten till the end, thanks to his 70-run knock off 44 deliveries. The opener struck six boundaries and three maximums to maintain a strike rate of 159.09 to see his side home in this crunch encounter against the misfiring Titans.
“I think all the people who put up strike rates and about me not playing spin well, are the ones who love talking about this stuff. For me, it’s about winning the game for the team. There’s a reason you have done it for 15 years, day in and day out,” Kohli said in the post-match presentation.
“I am not sure if you have not been in that situation yourself, to sit and speak about the game from the box, I don’t think it’s the same thing, so for me it’s just about doing my job, people can talk about ideas for the game, but for me it’s kind of a muscle memory now,” he added.
Kohli has now scored 542 runs in 11 IPL matches this season. He has maintained an average of 67.75, with a strike rate of 148.09. Kohli has notched four half-centuries and a solitary ton, hitting 48 boundaries and 24 sixes, leading the Orange Cap race at the moment.
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