Dubai, Sep 25: The legendary Sunil Gavaskar on Friday found himself in the midst of a controversy for making an unsavoury comment against Virat Kohli and his wife Anushka Sharma after the Indian captain's forgettable outing in the IPL.
After dropping two catches, Kohli, undoubtedly one of the best when it comes to chases, failed with the bat, managing just a run off five balls against Kings XI Punjab here on Thursday night.
In the commentary box, Gavaskar came up with a comment involving Kohli's actor wife Anushka.
Since I wrote "... hubby darling performs and delivers,"
I would be mighty surprised if some 'dolts' - who're already distorting Sunil Gavaskar's words and always laugh at their own poor jokes - don't reply like this: "Virat Kohli performed, so Anushka Sharma would deliver." pic.twitter.com/9bzuCN4Cpb
— Arpit Maheshwari (@NuwalArpit) September 24, 2020
The remark was in bad taste and did not go down well with the RCB skipper's fans, with some of them urging the BCCI to remove Gavaskar from the commentary panel.
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It's shameful what Sunil Gavaskar commnted on Virat and Anushka's personal life. A player always has good days and bad days and yesterday was just a bad one which obviously doesn't give anyone the right to comment on any player's personal life @imVkohli @AnushkaSharma
— Samriddhi (@Samridd46288784) September 25, 2020
Over the years, on quite a few instances, the Bollywood actress has been blamed whenever the now 31-year-old Kohli under-performed on the cricket field.
The Indian batting mainstay had a forgettable outing at the Dubai International Stadium.
Targeting Anushka for virat's performance just shows the mentality of Indian media and people including you Sunil Gavaskar..
Since you are given that position you should use your comments wisely
Please behave like educated ppl#AnushkaSharma
— Rahul Srivastava (@rahulsrivastawa) September 25, 2020
Kohli dropped his KXIP counterpart KL Rahul twice -- once in the 17th over at deep square-leg when he was batting on 83 and then again in the 18th over when he was on 89.
The KXIP skipper then went on to shatter a few record on the way to a 69-ball 132 -- the highest scored by an Indian in an IPL game.
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