Bipin Dani
Former India cricketer and wicket-keeper Farokh Engineer has come in support of Sunil Gavaskar, who, on Thursday criticised Team India and the RCB (Royal Challenger Bangalore) captain Virat Kohli for dropping two catches to allow Lokesh Rahul, the Kings Eleven Punjab skipper to become highest Indian scorer in the IPL.
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.
The former cricketer-turned-commentator took a dig at Virat Kohli and said that he only trained against Anushka’s bowling during the lockdown.
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. However, Gavaskar, himself has clarified and responded to Anishka Sharma’s response and stated that he was not referring to his comments in a bad taste.
Farokh Engineer, however, says, “We, Indians lack a sense of humour”. “If Sunil had indeed said so about Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli, it must have been in a humorous tone and not in the bad or derogatory taste”.
“Knowing Sunil Gavaskar well, I am sure he would have said it jokingly”. “Even in my case, people took it very seriously with the result that Anushka had to come out with her statement”.
“I didn’t even know one of the selectors during the World Cup and I asked him who the hell he was, because he was wearing the India blazer and he said he was one of the selectors. All they were doing was getting Anushka Sharma cups of tea,” Engineer had said then. “Anushka is the beautiful wife of India captain Virat Kohli and why would Sunil or me would criticise them”, Engineer said.
