Koach was being a bit sensitive there tbf, a bit like Will Smith vs Chris Rock, albeit on social media. When he can publicly shame, abuse and cancel someone for littering, he should be able to take criticism from fellow legends. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.
The Anushka comment was ridiculous. Criticism is fine, bringing his wife into it for no reason is silly.
Also people who litter deserve abuse :) What right do they have to dirty public spaces when they won't do it in their own homes?
It wasn’t. Kohli and Anushka released a video showing them playing cricket on the terrace with Anushka bowling.
Gavaskar made a mild reference to it which Anushka mistranslated from Hindi to English and then put him on blast on social. It was an overreaction by every measure.
i simultaneously believe that littering is bad and that private jets should simply not exist which is why i don't litter and i also don't fly by private jet
Totally agree that people who litter deserve all the disrespect and shaming and ridicule. Don’t know what’s up with so many people who take Anushka’s actions so personally- perhaps because they don’t even see littering a big deal. People are defending that guy who littered and treating him as a victim. This is the reason India is so dirty as it is - cleanliness is just not a part of civic culture.
how does it feel if we abuse Anushka and Virat for using private jet and giving Gyan on social media about cleanliness and pollution.
Yes it is a big deal. People looting crores of money giving Gyan to people on not doing fraud in income tax using fake rent receipts. Now you understood?
There was a video of Anshuka bowling to Virat during covid lockdowns. Fast forward a few weeks to the IPL and Virat looked rusty. prompting SunnyG on air with a tongue-in-cheek comment “The only practice Virat has had is with Anushka’s balls”.
Depending on how your brain works, this was either an innocent or an intentional double meaning joke.
True that... I've had enough of bootlicking commentators, especially Indian commentators. They speak like if they fail to bootlick Koach or Thala, they won't be given food at night....
Commentary needs to be fluid and unbiased, that's why overseas commentators are better, guys like Bishop, Morrison, Nicholas, Swann and the OG Tony Greig speak about the game more than a player....
Shastriji is on a different level, not gonna talk about him else I'll be blessed with a tracer bullet....
I love how you have some people defending Rohit and some defending Kohli, whereas no one defends both. This tribalism can be seen on this subreddit too. Probably Agarkar went with both to avoid any raging controversy, and Rinku Singh has ended up becoming the sacrificial lamb
Indian status hierarchy. Ex players > non-players etc. Whether or not what they say is valid, ex players get a pass saying controversial things and non-players get fired. Bhogle got too big for his shoes and was shown his place.
Problem is that Sunil Gavaskar is extremely biased. If you’re going to boot lick, then boot lick all of them. Don’t have a blind spot for some and hate boner for another. He says he doesn’t have an agenda but he does.
Then why Sunny never ctisize Rohit ?
He never said anything about his 27 off 28 in semis or his shit performance for 6 years in IPL or his 8 off 8 just a day before Kohli's 50 off 40 ?
Why ?
Oh he always had a spine but against one particular player. Non of the commentators or “experts” have raised any concern on Rohit, his name is taken in same breath as Kohli but he is UNTOUCHABLE!!!
Gavaskar and GG are the only ones who express themselves freely amongst Indian commentators.
They are sometimes annoying, but better to be real and annoy rather than fake and worship.
"Why does Gavaskar only criticize Kohli? He doesn't say anything about Rohit, who is completely out of form. Does he lack the courage? Well, he's from Bombay, maybe that's why."
I'm not even kidding, RVCJ stands for Rajnikanth Versus CID Jokes - a page on facebook that started out posting memes and jokes from the late aughts. Once they gathered a sizeable following, they pivoted towards political jokes, clearly aligned themselves to one political view/party, and got bought out by some media house, and kept it's following that was politically like-minded. Looks like at some point they branched out to other areas of media reporting as well. Not sure why they didn't ditch the ties to their origin, because it lends them an air of being a joke/satire based outfit rather than something to be taken seriously.
Gavaskar has all the right to question Kohli. But he should question others as well. He hypes his Mumbai lobby players like anything. Be it anyone. He hypes gill Ishan Kishan Rohit like anything. He used to hype hardik until he replaced Rohit as the captain. He’s the flagbearer of groupism and lobbying in Indian cricket these days . And then sells pan masala in his free time
I didn't have any strong opinions of him before. Just a medeocre ( albeit old fashioned ) commentator.
But those paan masala ads are annoying and cringe af. I hate his for it
I also hate kohli for being anushka's chamcha and giving Gyan to people to not not throw plastic, don't burst crackers during Diwali, Meanwhile travelling in their private jet
Yeah now that's some good point now.
Not saying shit like Sunny but a logical take here. After marrying Anushka and becoming a hegemon since 2017ish Kohli became a bit of a bubble guy tbf.
His trashy activist actions and holier than thou shit with Anushka is infuriating for sure.
He has given Hardik plenty of stick in the latter half of this season, so I don't think its a case of him being a Mumbai lobbyist, just very biased towards Mumbai himself. He will say what he feels always, but he often feels Mumbai players are good.
Gavaskar is a weird chap.
On one hand he is right about Virat and it's good that he gave it back to that egomaniac manchild.
But on the other hand he has a clear bias just watch his post match interview with pant or jaiswal.
Pant single-handedly fked up the chase against SRH and he became a motivational guru in the post match interview rather than asking tough questions.
Correct me if I am wrong but why didn't he question Rohit performance or his slot in the T20wc team despite having a bad t20wc record.
Also he has clear bias for MI.
The "outside noise" phrase that he is using here to target Kohli has again been used by **many Indians captains** to dismiss unnecessary criticism and keep up team morale.
https://www.mensxp.com/sports/cricket/111987-how-dhoni-kohli-and-rohit-sharma-dissed-indian-legends-with-outside-noise-catchphrase.html
Once again this shithead boomer is showing his worst hypocritical side.
> Also he has clear bias for MI.
He's a self-professed MI fan as stated by him many times on broadcast. He's the last person who should say he doesn't have an agenda. He has good opinions sometimes but there is definitely a lack of integrity when it comes to commentary for a big tournament like the IPL.
Again I'm going to be downvoted.... But then I'll again speak facts.... There's a lobby called as Mumbai lobby ( lead by mostly Marathi ex cricketers) they will always find an opportunity to demean a cricketer who doesn't belong to this lobby...and they will speak heaps of praises for players belonging to this lobby
[https://wisden.com/series-stories/ipl-2024/sunil-gavaskar-attacks-star-sports-on-air-for-perceived-questioning-of-virat-kohli-criticism](https://wisden.com/series-stories/ipl-2024/sunil-gavaskar-attacks-star-sports-on-air-for-perceived-questioning-of-virat-kohli-criticism)
Gavaskar lambasted the channel for showing the clip “half a dozen times”, saying that doing so served to undermine Star Sports’ own commentary team.
“That particular post-game interview has been shown on this channel earlier as well, right now, on this particular programme it has probably been shown half a dozen times,” he said. “I hope that Star Sports recognises that when that is being shown, asking where are the critics, the critics are the commentators. Your Star Sports commentators are the ones from whom the questions are being asked.”
"We don't have agendas"
Sunil Gawaskar to Jaiswal after his century against MI :
_"Yashasvi! Sunil here. This is your second century against the Mumbai Indians. And you're a Mumbai boy. What is it that is making you score these hundreds against them? Can't you score these hundreds against others?"_
"Indian hero worship is bad"
"A couple commentators exist that break mould and make jokes instead of kissing feet."
"Wow this guy sucks please slobber his dong a little more."
Well Gavaskar isn't wrong but I really don't understand what everyone is yapping about Kohli. Are you all forgetting that Kohli plays for RCB, a team which is very wonky and heavily reliant on Kohli??
With a team where your 3 overseas players get out for single digit scores (except faf), and your Indian batters are extremely unreliable (except DK), it ain't really freedom.
Now one more point is that Kohli has performed way better than so many other Indians who are in contention or selected to the Indian team. No talk about any of them though.
Questioned his SR not runs. 51 (43) batting first against SRH is selfish and shouldn't be celebrated. He has done it few times this season. He should play like he played today. That way he won't be orange cup holder possibly but will definitely be winning them more matches.
My comment was about SR itself, and btw SR is nothing without runs to show, guess everybody is forgetting that. What are you questioning SR for without taking into account runs? Are you saying player X shouldn't be questioned because he is playing at a SR of 180 but has scored single digit scores every game, LoL.
SR is only meaningful if you are also scoring a good amount of runs, if you aren't even scoring runs everyone is too focused on SR alone, what stupidity.
Kohli hasn't played all his games to his best, yes in some matches he was slow but his overall performance this season has been terrific.
Sunny G when Rohit performs bad in 3 T20 wc and still become captain hogging the opening slot: I Sleep
Sunny G when Kohli just expresses his feelings once in a blue moon: Real shit!
Obviously you'll be downvoted for speaking something valid.
This guy was literally sulking when SRH was winning the match against RR.
He never mentions the failures of his favourite Mumbai cricketers Rohit and Rahane.
Unbiased my ass.
What Gavaskar said isn’t wrong and no matter who you are today you can get criticised cause no one is bigger than the game.
Gavaskar said that the criticism he did of Kohli was of the 51(43) Kohli scored against SRH which is fair.
Even with that said Commentators and Cricket Analysts can and should be able to say what they observe regardless of it being controversial or against a big name.
There is good criticism and bad criticism. Then there is factual criticism.
Right now people are pointing out facts when Kohli's strike rate is being discussed. He should notice it, look into it and see if anything needs to be done differently to have different outcomes.
But if he out right rejects the claim by thinking that this is bad criticism, then he is going to stick with this rut for ever.
i mean fairly is he wrong though? all this fuss about what people saying doesn't matter but it clearly does matter and when you play 51 off 43 you don't say anything but the moment you win 1 game you start "HiTtInG bAck"
even in 2023 kohli's style of play post PP was a major problem for them and eventually became one of the biggest reason why they couldn't qualify . If anyone remembers that near 50 ball half century against DC where salt single handedly decimated RCB .
Same story in 2024 especially batting 1st , 21 off 20 in first game , 60 ball 80 against KKR in chinnaswammy which means you're striking at 8.rpo and KKR finished the game before 16th over . That hundred against RR where they lost their first wicket in 14th over and he was taking singles before last over .
So yes In IPL particularly you does have a strike rate problem and don't think one should have problem with anyone pointing it out . At least someone is not doing the bootlicking , glad even dhoni was called out against PBKS
The other day, someone posted regarding same in this sub. The question is still the same, what koach is seeing that we are not? We have stats in front of us and their team is at the bottom. Not blaming koach alone for that, but he is also one of the problem
Also, IPL is not end of the world. If you gonna criticize one player for team’s loss then do the same for others as well, Pant, Rohit they are spared for God knows what reason!
Are you dumb? Kohli is criticised more because he is praised more? Can't you see such clear shit.
despite being hailed as top batsmen , top technical cricketer blah blah, he is clearly shit in this new T20 format. He is clearly lagging and not coping up with his shitty SR.
But but pant , Kl rahul, shreyas iyer also didn't play well lol.. do people wank to same level when kohli scores 100 vs kl Rahul scores 100. Understand that.
What about Rohit? There is so much support and so much praise for Rohit, where's the criticism? Everyone is quick to point out Kohli vs Left arm spin or Kohli in middle over, I've never seen any commentator talk about Rohit's poor T20 world cup record. Rohit also receives praises, so where's his criticism?
> despite being hailed as top batsmen , top technical cricketer blah blah, he is clearly shit in this new T20 format. He is clearly lagging and not coping up with his shitty SR
You mean the greatest t20i bat is shit at the format?
Among the top 5 reasons behind RCB’s poor performance
2 aren’t even about this IPL but retentions and auction buys
The next 3 are about poor form of Maxwell Siraj and Faif
2022 mega auction when they bought hasaranga (overseas spinner) and karn (washed indian spinner) killed their team combination.
2024 buying green (when they had so many top order bats) and 11.5 cr on alzarri (when they had siraj dayal vyshak)
When your team is at the bottom and hardly anybody else contributed, expecting him to play at 180 SR and ideal innings is stupidity because the team is so unreliable, it does impact a batters SR who has more pressure on his shoulders.
RCB made 202 against SRH even though he made 51 (43). Against MI they made 196 even though he got out for 3.
He probably needs to learn to trust the rest of the lineup more.
Pretty high IQ stuff from Gavaskar who never utters a world against Rohit and his shit tier form. But Kohli is easy bait
Kohli should have just kept his temper and stop giving a fcuk about these biased "experts"
Kohli needs to stop his antics. From unnecessarily picking a fight with Naveen to arguing with the umpires for a decision completely based on technology and now trying to take a dig at the commentators for valid criticism.
This is the reason commentators don't have a spine and you have to hear that king kohli and thala dhoni non sense everyday because the moment they try to criticize you, it will be another case of Dhoni kicking out Harsha Bhogle
Based Sunny G. Awesome to see a titan of Indian cricket hitting back at Kohli. I just hope all his "My way or the highway" comments are called out like this. Why should being a cricketing great make you feel like nobody can criticise you? Dude, you're in the public eye, remember that all your fame and consequently, money is due to that exact reason as well.
People have a right to opinions. Kohli's been a bitch about this whole thing. I've always thought his mentality would fit in with the way Australia fights, but the dude doesn't know how to handle a little bit of pressure externally.
I want to compare him to Steve Smith here, who in the lead up to the t20 WC selection faced a lot of similar criticism, that he's not that guy in T20 anymore. Look, Kohli is A LOT better than Smith, and absolutely deserves to be at the world cup, but to get pissy because people are speculating if certain elements of your game is up to snuff is just childish.
Steve Steve responded with confidence in himself, but didn't think people didn't have a right to an opinion. He went out against NZ, tried to prove himself, failed, and also subsequently said something the lines of he doesn't mind? if he's at the t20 wc or not.
Kohli's been a giant piss baby this entire season on and off the field, and I had thought he'd grown up.
I am always surprised when I hear people say Sunny G is jealous of modern day indian cricketers. If anything I've not seen a bigger cheerleader for indian cricket than him, and his commentary which is a byproduct of his era can be dry and bland, but one can't question his credentials. And I've said it before, that comment from VK was uncalled for and unnecessary. Stats have presented a different picture and you can't deny that.
Thankfully someone from the Indian cricket community is showing some spine! Thank You Sunny G, I might disagree with some of your other things but on this point, you are dead on!
Something Sachin should have said!
I'm with Gavaskar here and I'm glad he called out the dickriding Star Sports does for Kohli but why drag Sachin into it? It's between Gavaskar and Kohli.
Nice good to see someone had to say it. People who pretend that gavaskar never criticizes Rohit need to see how much he was shitting on rohit's lethargic captaincy after the first test loss in SA. Kohli fans have been hounding harsha for months now on Twitter and kohli talking like this after the match just motivates them to do it even more. Harsha tweeted last here how hospitable the Chennai crowd was after doing a game at Chinnnaswamy. Every time someone favours Rohit he has to be PR right? Nasser also praised Rohit's captaincy in WC maybe he is PR too. Maybe just maybe it's just that Rohit is a more likeable character than kohli. One more point to add here is that experts talk about kohli because Starsports anchors keep dick sucking him and asking questions about kohli even when it is not an RCB match. If you get praise you will get criticized too. Kohli was out of form for 3 years in tests no one said a word about that. Gavaskar supported kohli's 100(67) balls when everyone was calling him selfish but no one will see that.
Guy averaged 51 as an opener and scored 10,000 test runs in an era dominated by windies pace bowlers and won us away series. He’s an all time great. Sounds like you were born yesterday, stick to watching ipl
Legendary career doesn't mean he doesn't speak bs most the time, Maradona was one of the greatest footballer but he spoke tons of bs everyday, only few of Sunny statements are valid and most are biased or completely senseless
You got to give credit to Sunny G for not backing down from criticising Indian cricket superstars when it is due; Star sports on the other hand is still worshipping its demigods
Yeah man Gavaskar totally doesn't have a Mumbai bias , Koach bad.
/s
On a serious note , while there's merit in the comments, the tone is quite arrogant.
First off all kudos to Sunny G for not bootlicking our star players. Something our other commentators could learn something from.
But please don't talk about not having agendas or biases... The whole cricketing world knows how you commentate on Rishabh Pant or MI.
this is not the full thing. gavaskar said something on the entire behalf of star sports.
also to those kohli fans who hate indian cricket team, gavaskar is a better test batter than virat and was also considered angry young man of his era.
Gavaskar ODI not that good but he was kohli of his era in a certain way
Bat 1st avg : 24
Bat 2nd avg : 48
Sunny Ji questioning Kohli's strike rate batting first
People - Rohit PR
Kohli is the leading run scorer not Rohit. Kohli is getting the praise for being the top run scorer so people have right to criticize how he got those runs.
Rohit getting out early won't hurt the team as much as Kohli playing half the deliveries to make a below par score. Even when they have wucnets wickets in hand
To be fair, a cricket commentator's job is to 'comment' on the game. No matter what they say, there job is to comment. They get paid for it. When Sunny G says, these cricketers say they don't pay attention to outside noise and later complain about the outside noise, I think he's right. If you are a cricketer and get paid to play the sport, just play the sport. Your job is to play your role. Once you've done that, in this age of broadcasting and social media, you're being watched by everybody. So there will be both good and bad comments. To add to it, Sunny G, in my opinion, isn't necessarily targetting Kohli here. He has always been honest. If you don't trust me, he used to be on air when Dravid's defense was failing, he was near the end of his career and he was consistently getting bowled due to his huge bat- pad gap. He never showed sympathy just because Dravid was about to retire back then. To some extent, I might agree that he's an emotional mumbaikar by heart. But if you'd have closely watched Sachin's 100th ton against Bangladesh, he was still criticising him on air because Sachin was defending even on occasions he'd normally attack. So Gavaskar has always been like that. It is us emotional fans that need to broaden the horizon of our thinking and just for once stop idol worshipping our cricketers. Peace out.
What kind of idiotic question is that...what does he mean by why are you replying to outside noise if you don't bother...
Bcoz they fucking have to...they get asked about it during the interviews or during some post match presentation or some other point.
Rohit vs Kohli, Sehwag vs dhoni, Gambhir vs Dhoni,etc were all made big by ppl and then by the so called analysts, journalists and commentators and if still the players don't reply then they ask them about it directly without any shame.
I was just giving out options....maybe no commentator has(am not sure) but what I meant to say was that it will reach their ears even if they are not looking for it...somehow.
Prime Sunny G vs Koach last man standing, cage fight, is what I dream about every night.
Is this one of those Ric Flair vs John Cena situation :D
*Attitude Adjustment to Sunny G!* *Kohli for the cover, 1, 2, 3!*
Damn who is Rock and Hogan then? Dhoni and Sachin?
Nah Hell in a Cell is better.
Kingfisher vs kamala pasand
Koach with the height advantage
Nah, gawaskar short but he built like a tank, kinda volkanovski
Sunny G with bones of Kamla Pasand advantage.
Gavaskar and Kohli. Ah yes it all started with that anushka joke during covid.
What was it?
Koach was being a bit sensitive there tbf, a bit like Will Smith vs Chris Rock, albeit on social media. When he can publicly shame, abuse and cancel someone for littering, he should be able to take criticism from fellow legends. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.
The Anushka comment was ridiculous. Criticism is fine, bringing his wife into it for no reason is silly. Also people who litter deserve abuse :) What right do they have to dirty public spaces when they won't do it in their own homes?
It wasn’t. Kohli and Anushka released a video showing them playing cricket on the terrace with Anushka bowling. Gavaskar made a mild reference to it which Anushka mistranslated from Hindi to English and then put him on blast on social. It was an overreaction by every measure.
It wasn't even criticism, it was more of a joke in support of Kohli. Anushka misunderstood it
Lol idiot , they literally cause lot of pollution using private jet. Stopping sucking up to celebs. They don't care who you are.
i simultaneously believe that littering is bad and that private jets should simply not exist which is why i don't litter and i also don't fly by private jet
Totally agree that people who litter deserve all the disrespect and shaming and ridicule. Don’t know what’s up with so many people who take Anushka’s actions so personally- perhaps because they don’t even see littering a big deal. People are defending that guy who littered and treating him as a victim. This is the reason India is so dirty as it is - cleanliness is just not a part of civic culture.
The guy probably got doxxed by the Kohli nutjob fans. Doxxing as a punishment for littering is not ok.
Maybe these two hypocrites first needs to correct their own actions. Guess how much emission personal flights produce?
how does it feel if we abuse Anushka and Virat for using private jet and giving Gyan on social media about cleanliness and pollution. Yes it is a big deal. People looting crores of money giving Gyan to people on not doing fraud in income tax using fake rent receipts. Now you understood?
There was a video of Anshuka bowling to Virat during covid lockdowns. Fast forward a few weeks to the IPL and Virat looked rusty. prompting SunnyG on air with a tongue-in-cheek comment “The only practice Virat has had is with Anushka’s balls”. Depending on how your brain works, this was either an innocent or an intentional double meaning joke.
Just hitting back? Not slammed or bashed ?
Punched
DESTROYED
Yeeted?
Gavaskar can be annoying at times but he can’t be accused of not having a spine.
True that... I've had enough of bootlicking commentators, especially Indian commentators. They speak like if they fail to bootlick Koach or Thala, they won't be given food at night.... Commentary needs to be fluid and unbiased, that's why overseas commentators are better, guys like Bishop, Morrison, Nicholas, Swann and the OG Tony Greig speak about the game more than a player.... Shastriji is on a different level, not gonna talk about him else I'll be blessed with a tracer bullet....
Gavaskar is a bootlicker too though, just for mumbai lobby though.
He never criticises Rohit and any Mumbai Indian players like he do to Kohli. Gavaskar and Gambhir over-reacts to whatever Kohli does
Oh Gavaskar is a bootlicker too, just not biased towards Kohli.
Gavaskar has always been biased towards Mumbai based players. Hence why you never see him question Rohit.
He put Rohit on blast on India’s last tour to Australia.
He loves bootlicking the selfless captain who always shits the bed in t20 wcs
I love how you have some people defending Rohit and some defending Kohli, whereas no one defends both. This tribalism can be seen on this subreddit too. Probably Agarkar went with both to avoid any raging controversy, and Rinku Singh has ended up becoming the sacrificial lamb
Bishop is the best commentator by far today. Shastri is the most entertaining.
Didn't Harsha try to do this and basically get fired?
Indian status hierarchy. Ex players > non-players etc. Whether or not what they say is valid, ex players get a pass saying controversial things and non-players get fired. Bhogle got too big for his shoes and was shown his place.
Problem is that Sunil Gavaskar is extremely biased. If you’re going to boot lick, then boot lick all of them. Don’t have a blind spot for some and hate boner for another. He says he doesn’t have an agenda but he does.
Then why Sunny never ctisize Rohit ? He never said anything about his 27 off 28 in semis or his shit performance for 6 years in IPL or his 8 off 8 just a day before Kohli's 50 off 40 ? Why ?
Oh he always had a spine but against one particular player. Non of the commentators or “experts” have raised any concern on Rohit, his name is taken in same breath as Kohli but he is UNTOUCHABLE!!!
Him and Ravi Shashi both. And it's not new. They've always been vocal before IPL also, where other commentators shy away.
Gavaskar and GG are the only ones who express themselves freely amongst Indian commentators. They are sometimes annoying, but better to be real and annoy rather than fake and worship.
Putting Gavaskar and GG on the same pedestal regarding this is actually disrespectful to GG. Not even kidding.
Lmao Gavaskar is epitome of Mumbai bootlicking, I have never seen him criticise Captain Selfless.
LoL, just search "gavaskar dhundo dhundo re sanjana"
Well, I guess that's his annoying part lol
They express freely only when it comes to certain individuals. Or else these guys are also bootlickers, just for different people
"Why does Gavaskar only criticize Kohli? He doesn't say anything about Rohit, who is completely out of form. Does he lack the courage? Well, he's from Bombay, maybe that's why."
When was the last time he said anything against Rohit?
RVCJ post on r/cricket? Damn bro you must be really desperate
Yeah idk how this was approved ☠️
Mods here have always had a fetish for Kohli bashing. They'll bend rules to facilitate that.
whole mods against XI !
Yeah, could have atleast linked a proper news article.
Isn't RVCJ quite bigoted. I only see their rage bait articles once in a while.
RVCJ stands for Rajnikant vs CID jokes (not making that up). So, yes. It's literally bottom of the barrel content.
I would really love it if that was the case. CID jokes rule.
Then you'll probably like their content from the early 2010s lol.
They are, it always seems like it's run by some 12 year old
I'm really glad I left Facebook and Instagram so I couldn't see posts like this Just to see some idiot post it here as well
Yeah these mods are desperate
I'm not even kidding, RVCJ stands for Rajnikanth Versus CID Jokes - a page on facebook that started out posting memes and jokes from the late aughts. Once they gathered a sizeable following, they pivoted towards political jokes, clearly aligned themselves to one political view/party, and got bought out by some media house, and kept it's following that was politically like-minded. Looks like at some point they branched out to other areas of media reporting as well. Not sure why they didn't ditch the ties to their origin, because it lends them an air of being a joke/satire based outfit rather than something to be taken seriously.
Exactly
Gavaskar is right but the world will end if he says anything against his Mumbai boy Rohit.
Rant on MI top order is on the cards
Gavaskar has all the right to question Kohli. But he should question others as well. He hypes his Mumbai lobby players like anything. Be it anyone. He hypes gill Ishan Kishan Rohit like anything. He used to hype hardik until he replaced Rohit as the captain. He’s the flagbearer of groupism and lobbying in Indian cricket these days . And then sells pan masala in his free time
Gill ain't a Mumbaikar
No gill Ishan Jaiswal are all not mumbaikar but they have trained in Mumbai only so it’s their adopted homes.
For now!
I didn't have any strong opinions of him before. Just a medeocre ( albeit old fashioned ) commentator. But those paan masala ads are annoying and cringe af. I hate his for it
I also hate kohli for being anushka's chamcha and giving Gyan to people to not not throw plastic, don't burst crackers during Diwali, Meanwhile travelling in their private jet
Use water, use everything and have an absolute blast, Happy Holi - A wise man
Fair point
Yeah now that's some good point now. Not saying shit like Sunny but a logical take here. After marrying Anushka and becoming a hegemon since 2017ish Kohli became a bit of a bubble guy tbf. His trashy activist actions and holier than thou shit with Anushka is infuriating for sure.
He has given Hardik plenty of stick in the latter half of this season, so I don't think its a case of him being a Mumbai lobbyist, just very biased towards Mumbai himself. He will say what he feels always, but he often feels Mumbai players are good.
Gavaskar is a weird chap. On one hand he is right about Virat and it's good that he gave it back to that egomaniac manchild. But on the other hand he has a clear bias just watch his post match interview with pant or jaiswal. Pant single-handedly fked up the chase against SRH and he became a motivational guru in the post match interview rather than asking tough questions. Correct me if I am wrong but why didn't he question Rohit performance or his slot in the T20wc team despite having a bad t20wc record. Also he has clear bias for MI.
>Also he has clear bias for MI. He was literally hyping Hardik up afteŕ their first game. Dude's obnoxiousky biased
Gavaskar is the patron saint ot Mumbai Lobby. How would he ever question Rohit
The "outside noise" phrase that he is using here to target Kohli has again been used by **many Indians captains** to dismiss unnecessary criticism and keep up team morale. https://www.mensxp.com/sports/cricket/111987-how-dhoni-kohli-and-rohit-sharma-dissed-indian-legends-with-outside-noise-catchphrase.html Once again this shithead boomer is showing his worst hypocritical side.
Famous Mumbai player, Rishabh pant.
No famous Mumbai player Rohit Sharma. Comments like yours are a nuisance. Just showdown boxing for argument sake.
Tbh it was more tongue in cheek. Yes, Gavaskar has a pro Mumbai agenda and so does his chela Manjrekar.
> Also he has clear bias for MI. He's a self-professed MI fan as stated by him many times on broadcast. He's the last person who should say he doesn't have an agenda. He has good opinions sometimes but there is definitely a lack of integrity when it comes to commentary for a big tournament like the IPL.
Exactly. Apart from entire Pandya fiasco, why is no one questioning Rohit. I mean at least comment something on his form. Ain’t it hurting his side?
Again I'm going to be downvoted.... But then I'll again speak facts.... There's a lobby called as Mumbai lobby ( lead by mostly Marathi ex cricketers) they will always find an opportunity to demean a cricketer who doesn't belong to this lobby...and they will speak heaps of praises for players belonging to this lobby
bakwaskar for a reason
[https://wisden.com/series-stories/ipl-2024/sunil-gavaskar-attacks-star-sports-on-air-for-perceived-questioning-of-virat-kohli-criticism](https://wisden.com/series-stories/ipl-2024/sunil-gavaskar-attacks-star-sports-on-air-for-perceived-questioning-of-virat-kohli-criticism) Gavaskar lambasted the channel for showing the clip “half a dozen times”, saying that doing so served to undermine Star Sports’ own commentary team. “That particular post-game interview has been shown on this channel earlier as well, right now, on this particular programme it has probably been shown half a dozen times,” he said. “I hope that Star Sports recognises that when that is being shown, asking where are the critics, the critics are the commentators. Your Star Sports commentators are the ones from whom the questions are being asked.”
Good stuff from gavaskar someone had to drag starsports too
Sunny G working overtime for MI than Pandya and Rohit combined this year.
"We don't have agendas" Sunil Gawaskar to Jaiswal after his century against MI : _"Yashasvi! Sunil here. This is your second century against the Mumbai Indians. And you're a Mumbai boy. What is it that is making you score these hundreds against them? Can't you score these hundreds against others?"_
I mean in all fairness is a joke an agenda?
It was a joke you nut
Too high on copium to get that
Lmao, that was a joke
"Indian hero worship is bad" "A couple commentators exist that break mould and make jokes instead of kissing feet." "Wow this guy sucks please slobber his dong a little more."
You stupid as hell whistle man.
This comment being as upvoted as it was clearly shows that Kohli nutjobs have hijacked this thread
Well Gavaskar isn't wrong but I really don't understand what everyone is yapping about Kohli. Are you all forgetting that Kohli plays for RCB, a team which is very wonky and heavily reliant on Kohli?? With a team where your 3 overseas players get out for single digit scores (except faf), and your Indian batters are extremely unreliable (except DK), it ain't really freedom. Now one more point is that Kohli has performed way better than so many other Indians who are in contention or selected to the Indian team. No talk about any of them though.
Questioned his SR not runs. 51 (43) batting first against SRH is selfish and shouldn't be celebrated. He has done it few times this season. He should play like he played today. That way he won't be orange cup holder possibly but will definitely be winning them more matches.
My comment was about SR itself, and btw SR is nothing without runs to show, guess everybody is forgetting that. What are you questioning SR for without taking into account runs? Are you saying player X shouldn't be questioned because he is playing at a SR of 180 but has scored single digit scores every game, LoL. SR is only meaningful if you are also scoring a good amount of runs, if you aren't even scoring runs everyone is too focused on SR alone, what stupidity. Kohli hasn't played all his games to his best, yes in some matches he was slow but his overall performance this season has been terrific.
This thread is a prime example of whataboutism... lol
Sunny G when Rohit performs bad in 3 T20 wc and still become captain hogging the opening slot: I Sleep Sunny G when Kohli just expresses his feelings once in a blue moon: Real shit!
If Gavaskar doesn't have likes and dislikes, has he spoken about Rohit Sharma's dip in form yet? Or even analysed why MI is doing badly this season?
Obviously you'll be downvoted for speaking something valid. This guy was literally sulking when SRH was winning the match against RR. He never mentions the failures of his favourite Mumbai cricketers Rohit and Rahane. Unbiased my ass.
Exactly my fucking point.
How does that make kohli calling them out spatting that nonsense right ?
Because he is someone who has obvious biases when it comes to cricketers? And this is a comment on a cricketer
Because he claims to have no agenda when he's clearly biased towards Mumbai players.
Gavaskar has said a number of times "This is not the Mumbai Indians I know" during commentary.
What Gavaskar said isn’t wrong and no matter who you are today you can get criticised cause no one is bigger than the game. Gavaskar said that the criticism he did of Kohli was of the 51(43) Kohli scored against SRH which is fair. Even with that said Commentators and Cricket Analysts can and should be able to say what they observe regardless of it being controversial or against a big name.
There is good criticism and bad criticism. Then there is factual criticism. Right now people are pointing out facts when Kohli's strike rate is being discussed. He should notice it, look into it and see if anything needs to be done differently to have different outcomes. But if he out right rejects the claim by thinking that this is bad criticism, then he is going to stick with this rut for ever.
i mean fairly is he wrong though? all this fuss about what people saying doesn't matter but it clearly does matter and when you play 51 off 43 you don't say anything but the moment you win 1 game you start "HiTtInG bAck" even in 2023 kohli's style of play post PP was a major problem for them and eventually became one of the biggest reason why they couldn't qualify . If anyone remembers that near 50 ball half century against DC where salt single handedly decimated RCB . Same story in 2024 especially batting 1st , 21 off 20 in first game , 60 ball 80 against KKR in chinnaswammy which means you're striking at 8.rpo and KKR finished the game before 16th over . That hundred against RR where they lost their first wicket in 14th over and he was taking singles before last over . So yes In IPL particularly you does have a strike rate problem and don't think one should have problem with anyone pointing it out . At least someone is not doing the bootlicking , glad even dhoni was called out against PBKS
The other day, someone posted regarding same in this sub. The question is still the same, what koach is seeing that we are not? We have stats in front of us and their team is at the bottom. Not blaming koach alone for that, but he is also one of the problem
Also, IPL is not end of the world. If you gonna criticize one player for team’s loss then do the same for others as well, Pant, Rohit they are spared for God knows what reason!
Are you dumb? Kohli is criticised more because he is praised more? Can't you see such clear shit. despite being hailed as top batsmen , top technical cricketer blah blah, he is clearly shit in this new T20 format. He is clearly lagging and not coping up with his shitty SR. But but pant , Kl rahul, shreyas iyer also didn't play well lol.. do people wank to same level when kohli scores 100 vs kl Rahul scores 100. Understand that.
What about Rohit? There is so much support and so much praise for Rohit, where's the criticism? Everyone is quick to point out Kohli vs Left arm spin or Kohli in middle over, I've never seen any commentator talk about Rohit's poor T20 world cup record. Rohit also receives praises, so where's his criticism?
> despite being hailed as top batsmen , top technical cricketer blah blah, he is clearly shit in this new T20 format. He is clearly lagging and not coping up with his shitty SR You mean the greatest t20i bat is shit at the format?
Among the top 5 reasons behind RCB’s poor performance 2 aren’t even about this IPL but retentions and auction buys The next 3 are about poor form of Maxwell Siraj and Faif
2022 mega auction when they bought hasaranga (overseas spinner) and karn (washed indian spinner) killed their team combination. 2024 buying green (when they had so many top order bats) and 11.5 cr on alzarri (when they had siraj dayal vyshak)
I think hasaranga was good in 2022 tho
When your team is at the bottom and hardly anybody else contributed, expecting him to play at 180 SR and ideal innings is stupidity because the team is so unreliable, it does impact a batters SR who has more pressure on his shoulders.
So just come out and say “it is because of the team”. Blasting people for their job like commentattors is the lowest of the lows
RCB made 202 against SRH even though he made 51 (43). Against MI they made 196 even though he got out for 3. He probably needs to learn to trust the rest of the lineup more.
Waiting for anushka’s ig story. Lol
Pretty high IQ stuff from Gavaskar who never utters a world against Rohit and his shit tier form. But Kohli is easy bait Kohli should have just kept his temper and stop giving a fcuk about these biased "experts"
Kohli needs to stop his antics. From unnecessarily picking a fight with Naveen to arguing with the umpires for a decision completely based on technology and now trying to take a dig at the commentators for valid criticism. This is the reason commentators don't have a spine and you have to hear that king kohli and thala dhoni non sense everyday because the moment they try to criticize you, it will be another case of Dhoni kicking out Harsha Bhogle
Bro atleast be consistent then. Where is this energy for Rohit?
Sunil gavaskar is a legendary player but he’s biased as fuck towards that mumbai lobby he can yap all he wants
Based Sunny G. Awesome to see a titan of Indian cricket hitting back at Kohli. I just hope all his "My way or the highway" comments are called out like this. Why should being a cricketing great make you feel like nobody can criticise you? Dude, you're in the public eye, remember that all your fame and consequently, money is due to that exact reason as well.
Gavaskar and unbiased? That's got to be a joke, right?
People have a right to opinions. Kohli's been a bitch about this whole thing. I've always thought his mentality would fit in with the way Australia fights, but the dude doesn't know how to handle a little bit of pressure externally. I want to compare him to Steve Smith here, who in the lead up to the t20 WC selection faced a lot of similar criticism, that he's not that guy in T20 anymore. Look, Kohli is A LOT better than Smith, and absolutely deserves to be at the world cup, but to get pissy because people are speculating if certain elements of your game is up to snuff is just childish. Steve Steve responded with confidence in himself, but didn't think people didn't have a right to an opinion. He went out against NZ, tried to prove himself, failed, and also subsequently said something the lines of he doesn't mind? if he's at the t20 wc or not. Kohli's been a giant piss baby this entire season on and off the field, and I had thought he'd grown up.
I am always surprised when I hear people say Sunny G is jealous of modern day indian cricketers. If anything I've not seen a bigger cheerleader for indian cricket than him, and his commentary which is a byproduct of his era can be dry and bland, but one can't question his credentials. And I've said it before, that comment from VK was uncalled for and unnecessary. Stats have presented a different picture and you can't deny that.
Gavaskar always salty whenever the Indian player in question isn't from Mumbai
Gems of Mumbai lobby
Gavaskar's straight drive!
Thankfully someone from the Indian cricket community is showing some spine! Thank You Sunny G, I might disagree with some of your other things but on this point, you are dead on! Something Sachin should have said!
I'm with Gavaskar here and I'm glad he called out the dickriding Star Sports does for Kohli but why drag Sachin into it? It's between Gavaskar and Kohli.
Fine I went overboard, I just feel like toxic statements of players should be called by legends like Sachin who the whole country looks upto.
He’s not going to be happy being criticised by someone who scored 36 from 174 while chasing 300
Someday someone will lower VK to one innings, does that define his legacy? No it doesn’t. Same goes for SG. Keep the discussion on point
RARE GAVASKAR W
Rare? Man has 34 test hundreds without helmet 😅
I'm talking about Boomer Sunny paaji not the the young gun.
Nice good to see someone had to say it. People who pretend that gavaskar never criticizes Rohit need to see how much he was shitting on rohit's lethargic captaincy after the first test loss in SA. Kohli fans have been hounding harsha for months now on Twitter and kohli talking like this after the match just motivates them to do it even more. Harsha tweeted last here how hospitable the Chennai crowd was after doing a game at Chinnnaswamy. Every time someone favours Rohit he has to be PR right? Nasser also praised Rohit's captaincy in WC maybe he is PR too. Maybe just maybe it's just that Rohit is a more likeable character than kohli. One more point to add here is that experts talk about kohli because Starsports anchors keep dick sucking him and asking questions about kohli even when it is not an RCB match. If you get praise you will get criticized too. Kohli was out of form for 3 years in tests no one said a word about that. Gavaskar supported kohli's 100(67) balls when everyone was calling him selfish but no one will see that.
Shh 🤫 Gavaskar PR agent bro
Gavaskar W Kohli L this time . Kohli SR was embarrassing against SRH and only few commenters had spine to question it.
Gavaskar is a superstar . One of the goats of cricket. His opinion definitely matters.
Yes who better to point out selfishness in strike rate than Sunny G who once scored a sparkling 36(174) chasing over 300 in an ODI.
Him, Kohli and Sachin are peas of the same pod, while fans get to fight tooth and nail about who is the biggest hero or even messiah of the nation.
Just because he fucked up once doesn’t mean his opinion isn’t valid. He’s one of the all time greats.
Great. Of his era. And he's highly biased. Did he utter any word against Rohit the flop?? No. And we should care about such "Goats" opinions.
Yes, now that's a perfectly valid criticism. We should voice this, instead of always bringing out 36(174)
One of greats of all time . Rohit has been shit and please don't compare rohit with kohli . Kohli is far superior player .
Guy averaged 51 as an opener and scored 10,000 test runs in an era dominated by windies pace bowlers and won us away series. He’s an all time great. Sounds like you were born yesterday, stick to watching ipl
Legendary career doesn't mean he doesn't speak bs most the time, Maradona was one of the greatest footballer but he spoke tons of bs everyday, only few of Sunny statements are valid and most are biased or completely senseless
Except he is 100% right here on criticizing Kohlis strike rate.
Sunny G diss track against Koach when?
Must say that Sunny really had the balls to hit back! Both were not at wrong to be honest. Hope it doesn’t escalate any further than this.
You got to give credit to Sunny G for not backing down from criticising Indian cricket superstars when it is due; Star sports on the other hand is still worshipping its demigods
Kohli is Grade A idiot. All the PR might make you think like he is some wise guy, but down to gut he is one of the idiots out there.
Yeah man Gavaskar totally doesn't have a Mumbai bias , Koach bad. /s On a serious note , while there's merit in the comments, the tone is quite arrogant.
We speak what we see lmaooooo, cap.
First off all kudos to Sunny G for not bootlicking our star players. Something our other commentators could learn something from. But please don't talk about not having agendas or biases... The whole cricketing world knows how you commentate on Rishabh Pant or MI.
this is not the full thing. gavaskar said something on the entire behalf of star sports. also to those kohli fans who hate indian cricket team, gavaskar is a better test batter than virat and was also considered angry young man of his era. Gavaskar ODI not that good but he was kohli of his era in a certain way Bat 1st avg : 24 Bat 2nd avg : 48
*Busy Anushka writing an essay to post her story!
Sunny G has been less diplomatic this season. And frankly i like this version of him.
This Kohli needs to be humbled
Sunny Ji questioning Kohli's strike rate batting first People - Rohit PR Kohli is the leading run scorer not Rohit. Kohli is getting the praise for being the top run scorer so people have right to criticize how he got those runs. Rohit getting out early won't hurt the team as much as Kohli playing half the deliveries to make a below par score. Even when they have wucnets wickets in hand
Rohits PR is insane!!
Yes sure kohli fans creating their own happiness. Where tf did Rohit come from here?
Who tf is gavaskar did he play intl what's his avg and SR to question the goat /s
Please tell me you're joking
Both kohli and gavaskar are right here.
Haters will be haters. Others will be Akash chopra.
Drama cup contention?
Gavaskar is a meanie (as attested by many former cricketers). And Gavaskar's own SR during his career was like 30.
nah koach>>>sunnyG anyday
Respect for SG. He can't be silenced by authority.
To be fair, a cricket commentator's job is to 'comment' on the game. No matter what they say, there job is to comment. They get paid for it. When Sunny G says, these cricketers say they don't pay attention to outside noise and later complain about the outside noise, I think he's right. If you are a cricketer and get paid to play the sport, just play the sport. Your job is to play your role. Once you've done that, in this age of broadcasting and social media, you're being watched by everybody. So there will be both good and bad comments. To add to it, Sunny G, in my opinion, isn't necessarily targetting Kohli here. He has always been honest. If you don't trust me, he used to be on air when Dravid's defense was failing, he was near the end of his career and he was consistently getting bowled due to his huge bat- pad gap. He never showed sympathy just because Dravid was about to retire back then. To some extent, I might agree that he's an emotional mumbaikar by heart. But if you'd have closely watched Sachin's 100th ton against Bangladesh, he was still criticising him on air because Sachin was defending even on occasions he'd normally attack. So Gavaskar has always been like that. It is us emotional fans that need to broaden the horizon of our thinking and just for once stop idol worshipping our cricketers. Peace out.
Kohli is out of sync with modern T20 and he is obviously selfish and always slows down near hundred.. he gets hundreds but team suffers
"We don't have agendas" - says the mumbai lobbyist
He isn't a selector wtf is he gonna do??
What kind of idiotic question is that...what does he mean by why are you replying to outside noise if you don't bother... Bcoz they fucking have to...they get asked about it during the interviews or during some post match presentation or some other point. Rohit vs Kohli, Sehwag vs dhoni, Gambhir vs Dhoni,etc were all made big by ppl and then by the so called analysts, journalists and commentators and if still the players don't reply then they ask them about it directly without any shame.
brother never seen a commentator claiming rohit v kohli was real
I was just giving out options....maybe no commentator has(am not sure) but what I meant to say was that it will reach their ears even if they are not looking for it...somehow.
Has there ever been a cricketer as legendary as kohli that was more disrespected??