“Pot Calling The Kettle Black”: Sunil Gavaskar Slams Australian Paper Over Suryakumar Yadav Catch Row

Indian cricket group created historical past within the lately concluded T20 World Cup 2024 because the Rohit Sharma-led facet grew to become the primary group to win the competitors with out dropping a single sport. India produced plenty of sensible performances and in the end, they defeated South Africa in an exciting remaining to clinch the T20 World Cup trophy after 17 years. Whereas India’s efficiency was lauded universally, some doubts have been raised over Suryakumar Yadav’s athletic catch to dismiss David Miller within the remaining over of the match. Quite a lot of movies on social media claimed that he truly touched the boundary line along with his leg whereas finishing the catch and such claims have been even reported in some international media shops. Legendary Indian cricket group batter Sunil Gavaskar was not happy with the accusation and slammed an Australian paper on making such claims within the aftermath of India’s victory within the competitors.

“There was additionally a query raised in an Australian paper concerning the equity of the catch that Suryakumar Yadav took to dismiss David Miller within the remaining. All of the replays have been fairly clear that SKY had accomplished a marvellous balancing act as he took the catch and flicked the ball up within the air earlier than he crossed the boundary rope after which jumped within the air and caught the ball inside the boundary to finish a wonderful catch,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.

Gavaskar even went on to say that Australian journalists ought to look into dishonest allegations towards their very own nationwide group earlier than commenting on different sides in world cricket. 

“No person questioned the catch, however the author of the article did. He could also be to see the video floating round of the ten most blatant dishonest acts accomplished by the Aussies earlier than making an attempt to level a finger at SKY. Pot calling the kettle black certainly,” the legendary India batter added.