Legendary Indian cricketer, Sunil Gavaskar was all over the headlines on Friday as he was accused of passing comments on Virat Kohli involving Anushka Sharma during RCB’s previous game. His statements were misinterpreted on social media as everyone was slashing the batting legend. It turned out to be a huge controversy when Anushka Sharma posted a long Instagram story in which she asked Gavaskar the reason for dragging her name while discussing her husband’s game.

However, the 71-year-old clarified his side of the story in an interview and told everyone to watch the video clip carefully again. He repeatedly cleared that he never blamed Anushka for Virat Kohli’s failures and he was only referring to the video surfaced during the lockdown in which Virat was seen playing cricket with Anushka. 

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Sunil Gavaskar clarified, “We were doing commentary. We were talking about practice. I had said that Virat Kohli didn’t get the opportunity to practice apart from the video we saw where they were playing in the building compound. I only said that Virat had played Anushka’s bowling.”

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Meanwhile, Irfan Pathan has opened up on the matter and has tweeted in support of Sunil Gavaskar now as he wrote, “Always respect #SunilGavaskar sir always.”

Here’s his tweet:

Always respect #SunilGavaskar sir always

— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) September 25, 2020

The likes of Zareen Khan and Kangana Ranaut have also slammed Sunil Gavaskar for his comment. However, the support for the 71-year-old has increased on Twitter ever since the video clip had gone viral on the internet. It remains to be seen if Anushka Sharma comes out to speak up on the matter now that Gavaskar has clarified what he meant when he took her name.

Only a sex starved pervert will find sexual context to #SunilGavaskar’s statement which he made on national television for a woman, he should’ve not mentioned her, but Anushka is playing a cricketer in her next and there are several videos of her practising with her husband.

— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) September 25, 2020