Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar landed in sizzling waters for his remarks on spin legend Shane Warne who handed away on Friday attributable to a suspected coronary heart assault. Fans on social media lashed out on the batting nice for commenting on Warne’s file towards India on the day of his dying.
During a dialog with India Today, Gavaskar was requested to price Warne among the many biggest spinners to have ever performed the sport. The cricketer-turned-commentator refused to enlist the Australian nice. Instead, he mentioned that Indian spinners and Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan had higher file than Warne.
“No, I wouldn’t say that no. For me the Indian spinners and Muttiah Muralitharan were better than Shane Warne,” Gavaskar advised India Today.
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“Look at Shane Warne’s record against India. It was pretty ordinary. In India, he got five wickets only once in Nagpur, and that too because Zaheer Khan swung wildly against him to give him a fifer. Because he did not have much success against Indian players who were very good players of spin, I don’t think I would call him the greatest. Muttiah Muralitharan with a greater success he had against India, I would rank him over Warne in my book,” he added.
The assertion wasn’t welcomed by the netizens and right here’s how they reacted:
Shameful interview Sunil Gavaskar and Rajdeep Sardesai. While Sunil G confirmed utter disrespect in the direction of a terrific who has simply handed away, Rajdeep smiled and grinned all through— Kshitij Gupta (@kgbasic) March 4, 2022
Shocking tone deafness from Gavaskar. A). How can you’re taking a public platform and air your private theories concerning the tragedy B). How can you’re taking this as a second to 1 up a participant as a result of your fav received a face to face C). Not related however how nationalist do you must be to-— Dweplea (@dweplea) March 4, 2022
Very poor commentary by Sunil Gavaskar….. He refused to name Shane Warne the best spinner ever as a result of his quantity in India and towards Indian batsman isn’t good…. So shameful.#Disgraceful— Sadaf Shamim (@imSadafShamim) March 5, 2022
Sunil Gavaskar refuses to name Shane Warne the best spinner ever as a result of he didn’t take sufficient wicket in India and Indian Batsman.Can he say identical about Sachin who didn’t have nice numbers towards say Glenn McGrath?He ought to’ve mentioned ‘Not today’— Mihir Jha (@MihirokJha) March 4, 2022
Dear Sunil Gavaskar sir,Late Shane Warne had Glen McGrath, Damien Fleming, Jason Gillespie, Brett Lee with greater than 1000 check wickets in his crew and but he had 708 check wickets.if you’re saying he’s not the very best spinner ever performed then you might be smoking one thing actually unhealthy.
— siddharth barjatya (@sidbarjatya) March 5, 2022
A report in Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday mentioned that the legendary spinner’s enterprise supervisor carried out CPR for about 20 minutes to save lots of him.
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“The 52-year-old’s long-time manager told the Herald and The Age (that) Warne had not been drinking before he was found by his friend Andrew Neophitou, an executive producer on his recently released documentary, who had gone to Warne’s Thailand hotel room before a planned dinner,” the report mentioned.
The experiences added that Warne was discovered unconscious ‘with the historic first Test between Australia and Pakistan playing on the television’. It mentioned the legendary spinner was holidaying at a resort in Koh Samui, Thailand ‘as part of a rare extended holiday’ and was scheduled to journey to the UK on his commentating project.
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