IPL 2024: Sunil Gavaskar hits back at Virat Kohli after his strike-rate critics rant

Sunil Gavaskar has hit out at Virat Kohli’s rant at his strike-rate critics and said.

That the commentators were just responding to what they were seeing in front of them during the matches. Kohli’s strike-rate has been a topic of discussion recently with many criticising him for being slow after the powerplay overs. Kohli responded with a fine 44-ball 70 against GT on April 28.

However, Kohli would be remembered on the day for his rant against the critics after the match. The comments seemed to have irked Gavaskar, who was on the pre-show ahead of the RCB vs GT clash. The Indian legend said that the commentators were questioning Kohli just because he was going at a strike-rate of 118 and then getting out in the 14th or 15th over.

“Commentators questioned only when the strike rate was 118. I’m not too sure. I don’t watch too many matches, so I don’t know what the other commentators have said otherwise. But if you have a strike of 118 and then you get out in the 14th or the 15th with a strike-rate of 118, I mean, if you want applause for that, that’s a little bit different. That’s different,” said Gavaskar.

Why are you responding to outside noise?
Gavaskar would hit out at Kohli and say that why he was responding to outside noise if he says about not paying attention to it. The Indian cricket legend said that the commentators have no agendas against anyone and are just doing their job.

“When you talk about all these guys talk about, oh we don’t care about outside noise, acha. Then why are you replying to any outside noise or whatever it is. We all played a bit of cricket, not a lot of cricket. We don’t have agendas. We speak about what we see. We don’t necessarily have any likes and dislikes. Even if we have likes and dislikes, we actually speak on what is happening,” said Gavaskar.