“What message does he [Kohli] want? Encouragement? After quitting captaincy, what encouragement do you want?” Sunil Gavaskar has a counter-question for Virat Kohli, who had stated solely Dhoni had texted him after he give up captaincy

A day after Virat Kohli stated the one cricketer who performed with him to message him after he give up captaincy was MS Dhoni and former participant(s) ought to have provided to assist him straight as a substitute of telling it to the world on tv, Sunil Gavaskar has just a few questions of his personal for Kohli.

“What message does he want? Was it encouragement? After quitting captaincy, what encouragement do you want?” Gavaskar stated on Aaj Tak.

But first, for context, that is what Kohli stated: When I left Test captaincy, I obtained a message from just one particular person, with whom I had performed beforehand; that was MS Dhoni. Many individuals have my quantity. On TV, individuals give a lot of recommendations, and folks have so much to say. But not one of the individuals who had my quantity despatched me a message.”

Gavaskar needed to know what particular message was Kohli searching for. “What message does he [Kohli] want? Was it encouragement? After quitting captaincy, what encouragement do you want? Captaincy chapter is over, end. Now show your total focus on the cricketer role. As a captain, you would be worried about all players. When you are no longer the captain, you can concentrate on your speciality,” Gavaskar stated.

Gavaskar additionally gave an instance of the day he give up captaincy for the ultimate time in 1985 in Australia. “I also quit captaincy. Madan Lal (former player who was Gavaskar’s co-panelist on the TV show) was there with me, the evening after the world championship of cricket. We all met, hugged each other, and celebrated winning the trophy. Apart from that what message do you want? I don’t know. After quitting captaincy, I played on with the same team-mates. Team camaraderie was great, same. we had great fun,” Gavaskar stated.

Gavaskar additionally had his say on the Kohli’s following assertion made a day earlier. “If you give the suggestions in front of the world, it has no value for me. If it is for my improvement, you can talk with me one-on-one, (tell me) that I genuinely want you to do well. I live life with a lot of honesty, so I can see through such things,” Kohli had stated. Gavaskar addressed that by saying it may be guessed who was referred to. Though on this context, Gavaskar interpreted the alleged former participant on air as somebody who has performed with Kohli.

“Which former player is going on tv and talking – the one who played with him – we can understand who he is pointing to. Who is on TV and who isn’t we all know. But if Kohli is pointing towards that person, then you have to go ask him – why didn’t you send a (direct) message or whatever.”

Gavaskar had began off by saying it was tough to say something as a result of it’s not clear who was Kohli referring to. “It’s difficult to say anything. If he had taken names, then you can go ask that player why didn’t you contact? But what I heard was he mentioned no one apart from Dhoni texted him after he quit Test captaincy. We don’t know what message that was.”

When Gavaskar’s reply ended, Madan Lal picked it up. He was direct and stated Kohli shouldn’t have stated forward of a giant sport as it may possibly deflect staff’s focus.

“He should not give comments like this. It’s good you are back in form but you have to approach players when you are in difficulty. Not bring ego into this. When I was out of form, I would ask. He could have said this (about help) a few months back,” Madan Lal stated.