After a controversy erupted around the remark, Gavaskar cleared the air and said the people were just trying to make headlines and asked everyone to listen to the video again to check if he was being sexist or not.
“As you hear from the commentary, Aakash [Chopra] and I were doing commentary for a Hindi channel. And Aakash was talking about the fact that there has been very little chance for proper practice for everybody. That has actually shown in the rustiness of some of the players in their first matches,” Gavaskar told India Today.
“Rohit [Sharma] didn’t strike the ball well in his first match, MSD [Mahendra Singh Dhoni] didn’t strike the ball well, Virat [Kohli] also didn’t strike the ball. Most of the batsmen have because of the lack of practice,” he said.
Gavaskar further explained. “That was the point that was being made. Virat also had no practice and the only practice that…