Little Master Sunil Gavaskar on Friday found himself in the midst of a controversy for making a tasteless comment against Virat Kohli and his wife Anushka Sharma after the Indian captain’s upsetting outing in the IPL.
Now Anushka Sharma has also hit back at the batting legend on the remark. "I would love for you to explain why you thought of making such a sweeping statement on a wife accusing her for her husband's game?" wrote Anushka on her Instagram.
In the last match Kohli failed with the bat, managing just a run off five balls against Kings XI Punjab in Dubai on Thursday night. In the commentary box, Gavaskar came up with a sexist comment involving Kohli’s actor wife Anushka. “Inhone lockdown me to bas Anushka ki gendon ki practice ki hai,” said Sunil Gavaskar.
Over the years, on quite a few instances, the Bollywood actor has been blamed whenever the now Indian Captain under-performed on the cricket field , Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar is the latest to join the bandwagon. Sharma has written on her recent note addressed to the commentator "It's 2020 and things still don't change for me When will I stop getting dragged into cricket and stop being used to pass sweeping statements ?"
The remark did not go down well with the RCB skipper’s fans as well, with some of them urging the BCCI to remove Gavaskar from the commentary panel.
People all over the internet were disappointed over the remark, moreover so made on the international platform. While some were quick to demand his resignation, others schooled him about why it was wrong.