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Former India cricketer Karsan Ghavri criticized the likes of Rohit Sharma. Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill for not taking advice from Sunil Gavaskar. Notably, many legendary India cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag had taken advice from Gavaskar regarding their batting on multiple occasions during their playing days. However, the same isn't the case with the new generation of players from the country.
Ghavri, who was formerly a teammate of Gavaskar, feels that it is quite unfortunate that the players these days end up neglecting the legendary batter rather than taking batting tips from him. He further highlighted how overseas players have no problem in seeking advice from Gavaskar, but players from India have no time to listen to the latter.
"Gavaskar has been doing commentary for the last 25 years. His comments are so precious to any young player. It's very unfortunate that our own players don't go to him for any advice. Even players from outside go to him. Every Indian batter should go to him, including Shubman Gill. I don't know whether he's gone to him or not, but if he hasn't, he should. Somewhere, it would have come in the media – that Sunil Gavaskar has advised Virat Kohli, or Rohit Sharma or Shubman Gill something – but we never got to hear any such thing," Ghavri said on the Vickey Lalwani Show.
Ghavri believes that Gavaskar isn't respected enough
Ghavri also stated that both Rohit and Virat should respect a great man like Gavaskar. He further gave an example of Ravi Shastri and claimed that Gavaskar criticizes a player in a much different way than how the former does.
"It is nonsense. You may be Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli. They must respect the great man. Because if he tells you something or is advising you on something, that is for their own good. Ravi Shastri is an open-hearted guy. When it comes to criticising somebody, he will do it, but Sunil does it in a very different manner. He is known for saying things totally different to Ravi Shastri," Ghavri stated.
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This statement comes after Rohit had reportedly complained to the BCCI about Gavaskar's harsh criticism towards him during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 against Australia. Notably, the latter had criticized the former on his batting after he had given poor performances in multiple Tests in the five-match series.
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