Former Indian cricketer and commentator, Sunil Gavaskar, has found himself at the receiving end of criticism and trolling because of his tasteless comment during Rajasthan Royals (RR) final league stage game against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Brabourne Stadium on Friday.
Gavaskar is being thrashed by the fans for his unwarranted comment on Rajasthan Royals cricketer Shimron Hetmyer and his wife.
Shimron Hetmyer, who was returning to the playing XI of Rajasthan Royals, walked out to bat when RR lost their fifth wicket and was in a tricky situation in their 151-run chase against CSK. As the chase became tougher for Rajasthan Royals, Sunil Gavaskar, in commentary, said: “Hetmyer’s wife delivered, will Hetmyer deliver for the Royals now?”
For the unversed, Hetmyer had left the Rajasthan Royals bubble and traveled to Guyana to be with his wife, who was pregnant with their first child. Hetmyer and his wife were blessed with a baby on May 10.
After spending a few days with his wife and newborn, Shimron returned back to India and joined the RR team. He was picked as soon as he was available for the selection by the RR in their important game against CSK.
This isn’t the first time that the former cricketer has faced backlash because of his remark on-air. In IPL 2022, after a string of failures, Gavaskar had said on-air: “Inhone lockdown me to bas Anushka ki gendon ki practice ki hain“. (which roughly translates to: Virat Kohli has only trained against Anushka’s balls during the lockdown).
Meanwhile, Gavaskar’s particular comment on Shimron didn’t go down well with the fans on social media, who are now trolling the former cricketer left, right, and center for making a personal remark on the cricketer.
Check out the reactions of fans:
Gavaskar should be chained 50 meters away from commentry box and shouldn’t touch mic in entire life and should be jailed to speak in mic
— Caffeine_Addict (@Arrest_tea) May 20, 2022
Pathetic comment by sunil gavaskar
Earlier he passed a nasty comment on virat & anushka
Today he is taking dig at hetmyer his wife delivered will he deliver he known for sneeky remarks against women such alow @StarSportsIndia shame?? Why to having such person on ct box??
— яαℓ (@Better_thn__you) May 20, 2022
Sunil Gavaskar and his commentary, I cannot.
Virat then, Hetmyer now.
Maybe nothing is ‘sexist’ about his comments as such but just bringing up people’s personal lives and their spouses during a professional cricket match is sick.
And ofc his commentary toward Kohli is sick af.— blueglow (@blueglow15) May 21, 2022
There must be better commentators than Sunil Gavaskar. #BanSunilGavaskarFromCommentating
— Deep Mistry (@deep_mistry1899) May 20, 2022
stop letting boomer uncles commentate, tell gavaskar to retire.
— meds
(@kehnahikyaax) stop letting boomer uncles commentate, tell gavaskar to retire.
— meds
Sunil Gavaskar said, “Shimron Hetmyer’s wife has delivered, will he deliver now for the Royals”.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) May 20, 2022
Sunil Gavaskar is so embarrassing!!!
I don’t want to listen to the “he’s one of the greats of the game, respect him” I am not talking about his cricket, I am talking about his very very embarrassing comments. He needs to know where the line.
— Aani
(@wigglyywhoops) Never liked Gavaskar the person https://t.co/PDKrzDF8lK
— sourav (@Purplepatch22) May 20, 2022
“Hetmyer’s wife has delivered, will he deliver for the Royals?”
This is followed by laughter in the background……..no comments on that….
— Nikhil
(@CricCrazyNIKS) Gavaskar behave ypurself
— ypu (@MoriaBajumdar) May 20, 2022
Now I feel Ansuhka was right scolding Mr.Gavaskar
— ARYANᴿᶜᴮ (@TheAryanBansal) May 20, 2022
Gavaskar and his habit of bringing family and making jokes thinking it is funny
— anushka (@away_fromglory) May 20, 2022
my word Gavaskar!! what’s even the point of bringing a cricketer’s wife into commentary conversations..
wish Hettie’s wife – as Anushka did earlier – takes it to social media to call out SG..horrible.. https://t.co/kT7AiOSG7L— Jatin Khandelwal (@jr_khandelwal) May 20, 2022
Such an bullshit commentator Gavaskar is… bringing someone’s private life in cricket is normal for him….He literally relating cricket with women’s delivery…. really Gavaskar?? https://t.co/h1TeQbHZQP
— tauseef
(@pascal_ak_) Why Is Gavaskar still doing commentary? It’s not even funny anymore
— Harman Rai (@HarmanR47154159) May 20, 2022
Ban This Sunny Gavaskar from Commentry https://t.co/uceNCdAICA
— Prasanjit (@Prasanj19782888) May 20, 2022
Imagine intermixing Cricket with personal life.
Gavaskar has been annoying since very long but Why Star Sports hasn’t fired him till now ?
Awful. https://t.co/xecbllDVD9
— Tukun (@SuvTK7) May 20, 2022
Should this Gavaskar be banned like Boria? #CSKvsRR #SunilGavaskar https://t.co/mUrxlxwMDX pic.twitter.com/z2EOYKqXYN
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DC Shameless Commentary from Sunil Gavaskar #CSKvsRR #SunilGavaskar
— Nandu Vijayan (@IamNanduVijayan) May 20, 2022
Hetmyer has got out, will Gavaskar saab too get out of commentary box?
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) May 20, 2022
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